One more tip to using your laptop or iPad: good posture

Good posture used to be about standing up straight, but now it’s about how you use computers and laptops -- and whether they’re giving you a pain in the neck.

The McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which provides a “Posture and Study Habits Guide” to students, says good posture is important for computer users to keep neck pain at bay. Among the tips: Put your laptop at eye level and use an external keyboard and mouse positioned at elbow height.

A Florida doctor coined a new term for patients he treats who have repeated pain from using computers and mobile devices, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports, in “The next tech-driven malady: ‘text neck.’”

-- Mary Forgione / Los Angeles Times