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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cervical spine surgeon K. Daniel Riew at Och Spine at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center has started seeing patients in their 20s. That age group rarely appeared in his practice before. Americans now average about seven hours a day on screens, according to DataReportal, and the physical body adapts to patterns that repeat. A spine surgeon, a vision scientist, and a medical sociologist each described what that adaptation looks like. The finding
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