Effect of Whole Body Vibration in Young Females With Smartphone Addiction

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smart Phone Addiction

Treatments: Other: Strengthening exercises; Device: Whole body vibration; Device: Sham Whole body vibration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06849687

No. 7486

Details and patient eligibility

About

Young adults have a high prevalence of smartphone addiction. Many adolescents use their smartphones extensively for communication, which starts out as a habit but eventually turns into an addiction. Numerous studies have shown that adolescents use social media for roughly ten hours every day.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• High smartphone users according to the Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS- SV)
• Body mass index (BMI) less than 30 kg/m²
• Didn't receive regular exercise in the last 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Medical history of median nerve release, hand or thumb tendon lesion
• Prior hand or wrist fractures
• Medical history of hand injuries, and upper limb skin diseases
• WBV contraindications include (joint issues, acute inflammations, back pain, epilepsy, diabetes, or neuromuscular disorders, or dizziness, any discomfort, and nausea)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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66 participants in 2 patient groups

Group A (Whole body vibration group)

Experimental group

Description:

Whole body vibration (WBV) group will receive vibration on the platform for 20 repetitions in 2 sets with 2 minutes rest between sets in addition to strengthening exercises to the hand muscles.

Treatment:

Other: Strengthening exercises

Device: Whole body vibration

Group B (Sham Whole body vibration group)

Sham Comparator group

Description:

participants will receive WBV with the device turned off in addition to strengthening exercises to the hand muscles.

Treatment:

Device: Sham Whole body vibration

Other: Strengthening exercises