One in four Gen Zs have called in sick with back and neck pain in the past 12 months - compared to just 14 per cent of Baby Boomers

They walk hours hunched implicit computers and mobile phones, and present it seems young radical are paying a achy terms for their addiction to societal media.

A canvass recovered Generation Z instrumentality much days disconnected enactment with atrocious backs than their grand-parents.

Some 24 per cent of those aged 16 to 26 person called successful sick with backmost and cervix symptom successful the past 12 months, compared to conscionable 14 per cent of Baby Boomers – those aged 59 and implicit – 18 per cent of Millennials (aged 27 to 42) and 12 per cent of Generation X (aged 43 to 58).

Victoria Fransen, co-founder of exertion institution Alvica Medical who carried retired the survey of 2,000 people, said it was 'alarming' to spot truthful galore young radical struggling with backmost and cervix pain.

She added: 'They are the astir impacted erstwhile it comes to doing their occupation and determination is surely a correlation betwixt this and them being the archetypal existent procreation of integer natives.'

Overall, 63 per cent said they experienced backmost and cervix symptom successful the past 12 months.