The Association of Telephone Head Tilt With Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spine Mobility and Disorders in Young Adults

Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Forward Head Posture

Treatments: Other: To assess telephone head tilt and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility and disturbances.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05814289

83116987-712

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the relationship between telephone head tilt and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility and disturbances in young adults.

Full description

Today, the fact that smartphones are easily portable and can be used for many purposes such as playing games, surfing the Internet, accessing information, shopping, and listening to music has made them widespread at an unexpected rate. This situation has brought the issue of device addiction to the agenda. Smartphone addiction can lead to many physical ailments such as visual impairment, numbness, and tingling in the hands, neck, back, hip, and knee pain. In the studies conducted, smartphone addiction was determined in university students and this situation was found to be associated with musculoskeletal pain. Considering the smartphone usage rates, durations, and smartphone usage postures of young adults, it can be predicted that spinal mobility may be adversely affected and may cause spine-related disorders. This study aims to determine the relationship between telephone head tilt and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility, and disorders in young adults. In addition, it is aimed to examine the relationship between these parameters with quality of life.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Using smartphone,
• Not having any diagnosed chronic disease,
• No past or present mental illness,
• Individuals who can speak, read and write Turkish.

Exclusion criteria

• Having any neurological, psychiatric or cognitive disorder,
• Individuals who cannot speak, read or write Turkish.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy young adults group

Other group

Description:

To assess telephone head tilt and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility and disturbances.

Treatment:

Other: To assess telephone head tilt and cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine mobility and disturbances.