Effect of Texting and Writing on Grip and Pinch Strength

General Committee of Teaching Hospitals and Institutes, Egypt

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Weakness Condition; Hand Grasp

Treatments: Other: Texting- 15 minutes; Other: Texting- 10 minutes; Other: Writing- 10 minutes; Other: Writing- 15 minutes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04810416

CMR-PT-2021-09

Details and patient eligibility

About

Texting and writing are common hand activities among college students. Students tend to spend increasing hours of texting and writing for every day activities in addition to the academic assignments that are mainly on line and through distance education. The effect of such daily activities on hand grip and key pinch strength has not been studied among college students.

Full description

Students will be recruited from physical therapy department of college of medical rehabilitation sciences after satisfying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the four groups (texting 10 minutes, texting 15 minutes, writing 10 minutes and writing 15 minutes). Participants will be blinded to the outcome measures and the evaluator will be blinded to the participants assigned group. Hand grip strength and key pinch strength will be the main outcome measures. Participants demographics will be gathered in addition to recreational status, risk factors, pain body diagram and number of hours spent for texting and writing in every day life.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Active college student
• Healthy
• Willing to participate
• Using smart phones& electronics
• Hand writing for > 10 minutes/day

Exclusion criteria

• Recent upper limbs injury (sprain& strain)
• Chronic neurological disorder
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• De Quervain's disease
• Diabetic neuropathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 5 patient groups

Texting- 10 minutes

Experimental group

Description:

Assigned participants will do texting for 10 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Texting- 10 minutes

Writing- 10 minutes

Experimental group

Description:

Assigned participants will do writing for 10 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Writing- 10 minutes

Texting- 15 minutes

Experimental group

Description:

Assigned participants will do texting for 15 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Texting- 15 minutes

Writing-15 minutes

Experimental group

Description:

Assigned participants will do writing for 15 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: Writing- 15 minutes

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No hand activities.