Are laptops a health risk?

[AB Asks]

Laptops are giving people back problems according to new research. Slouching over the screen apparently causes damage to muscles in the back and neck. It is affecting children as young as 12 and millions are at risk of causing 'irretrievable damage' to their spines, neck and shoulders. Has anyone experienced anything like this when using a laptop? Are they really risking peoples health?

[sleepy1]

i better just put mine in the bin then. bye every one thats me gone for good ........................lol ..

[alijangra]

Peoples poor posture is their own fault, regardless of what they are doing. Blame culture gone mad.

[Joe_the_Lion]

If you put bad back in to Google, there are 312,000,000 hits. I am sure the little scamps can read up on how to deal with such a problem should it arise.

I heard that if a man has his lap top, literally on his lap, due to the heat and "rays" emitting, it can fry his balls and cause a lower sperm count.

[bigmamma]

Hi AB :-) I have just bought a laptop so I promise to be a good girl and sit sensibly , especially as I already have neck and spine problems.

xx

[dot.hawkes]

I think laptops are a seriously dangerous peice of kit, i have on several occasions threatened to throw mine though the window.
If there is anyone out there who uses a laptop sitting bolt upright at a desk, then why do you use a lappy? You may as well have a PC, a laptop means you can lie on the lounger in the garden and use it , or lie down in bed and use it, why would you use it like an ordinary PC?

[sleepy1]

like me i lay in bed on mine . makes me lazy :(