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Impact of Smartphone Addiction on Cervical Pain, Cervical Lordosis and Pectoralis Minor Muscle in Young Adults: Mugdha Oberoi and Jinal Gada.

ABSTRACT:

Background:- Billions of people are using smartphones in their day to day lives, essentially in poor posture. Loss of natural curvature of the cervical spine can lead to increase stresses on the spine. These stresses may in turn lead to early wear and tear, leading to degenerative changes. Imbalance in muscle activity due to altered mechanics can be a cause of pain in musculoskeletal system of neck and shoulder in smartphone users. Therefore it is important to identify and assess the biomechanical changes that may be caused due to prolonged use of smartphones.

Materials and Methods:- 60 (N=60) young adults (25 males and 35 females) were divided into 3 groups of smartphone addiction (low n=20, medium n=20 and high n=20) based on their scoring of Smartphone Addiction Scale. Cervical lordosis angle was assessed using a Flexicurve, pectoralis minor muscle length using a right angled protractor and Pain using Numerical Rating Scale.

Result:- Data analysis showed no significance between pectoralis minor muscle length (right=0.7673, left=0.7238) and cervical lordosis angle (p value in low group=0.8166, p value in medium group=0.886, p value in high group=0.1872). However cervical pain was significantly high as the level of addiction increased (p value<0.0001).

Conclusion:- There was a significant difference in the cervical pain as the level of smartphone addictions increased. Although there was no significant change in cervical lordosis angle and pectoralis minor muscle length as level f smartphone addiction increased.  

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Correlation of Mobile Phone Addiction Scale (MPAS) Score With Craniovertebral Angle,Scapular Index and Beck’s Depression Inventory Score in young adults: Rupali Salvi and Sneha Battin

ABSTRACT:

Background: Mobile phone usage has become increasingly common in today’s youth. It’s heavy use often leads to an addiction. Dependency on these devices could lead to postural dysfunction as well as produce an adverse effect on psychology.  Hence, this study is done to correlate mobile addiction with craniovertebral angle, scapular index and Beck’s depression inventory score in young adults.

Methods: An observational study was performed on 100 subjects out of which 51 were males and 49 were females in the age group of 18-25 years who were pursuing their graduation and post-graduation courses. Mobile phone addiction scale was used to measure the scale of addiction. Craniovertebral angle, Scapular Index and Beck’s Depression of inventory score were measured. Correlation of Mobile Phone Addiction Scale Score with the above mentioned parameters was done using GraphPad Instant Version 3.10 (Pearson correlation coefficient and Spearman correlation coefficient).

Results: Mobile phone addiction was found low in 27%,moderate in 30% and high in 43% participants. There is significant correlation of mobile phone addiction scale score with craniovertebral angle (r=0.6470,p=<0.0001), Scapular index (r=-0.4370,p=<0.001),and Beck’s depression Inventory score (r=0.3172,p=0.0013).

Conclusion: This study shows that mobile phone addiction is common among the youth and it contributes to considerable stresses on neck and shoulder. It could even cause unfavorable repercussion on an individual’s psychological status,such as depression. Hence,it is important to create awareness among the youth and take preventive measures for the same.

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Influence of Smartphone Addiction Grade on Cervical Pain in Young Adults: Mugdha Oberoi and Ayushi Punmiya.

ABSTRACT:

Background: Smartphone usage has increased over the past few years. Due to the internet usage that the smartphone provides, it is extensively used younger populations. Overuse of smartphones is known to cause various musculoskeletal, visual and psychological problems which are an important aspect affecting health and wellbeing of young adults. Thus, this study aimed at assessing the smartphone addiction grades and its influence on cervical pain in young adults.

Materials and Methods: Young asymptomatic adults (N-60) with 25 males (n=25) and 35 females (35) between the age group of 19-35 years (mean age=21.85 years) were assessed for smartphone addiction into low, medium and high addiction grades and cervical pain during or immediately after using a smartphone in the past 1 week using the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS).

Result: There is a significant difference in the cervical pain in low versus medium smartphone users (p=0.0026) and low versus high smartphone users (p<0.0001) but no significant difference in neck pain in medium versus high smartphone users (p=0.0718).

Conclusion: The study concludes that as the smartphone addiction increases, the cervical pain reported by the study population also increased.

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