Texting & Walking: Study Reveals Why Combo Is Dangerous Texting
while walking could change you gait enough to cause accidents, a
new study finds. CREDIT: Supri Suharjoto | Shutterstock You may
have mastered walking and chewing gum, but you should reconsider
adding texting and cellphone conversations to your ambulatory
repertoire, a new study warns. Scientists at Stony Brook
University in New York have found that using a cellphone to talk
or text while walking can disrupt your gait to such a degree as
to cause accidents. The study, published in the current issue of
the journal Gait & Posture, is the first to focus on the basic
mechanics of putting one foot in front of the other while using
a cellphone, as opposed to research on unexpected physical
dangers, such as walking into a car or down a manhole. Hang up
and walk? The researchers, Eric Lamberg and Lisa Muratori of
Stony Brook's School of Health Technology and Management,
recruited 33 male and female adults in their 20s who, in theory,
had been perfecting