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- Title
Association of Hand Performance with Neck Disability in Text Neck Syndrome among College Students.
- Authors
Anand, Bhavna; Sharma, Priya
- Abstract
Objective - To study the association between neck pain, neck disability and hand performance in text neck syndrome among college students Methodology - A correlation study was done on 60 college students. Subjects having history of shoulder or neck pathology, musculoskeletal disease or anomaly, history of surgery of spine, history of surgery of neck or shoulder, recent surgery, chronic medical illness were excluded. Detailed assessment form was filled by the subjects regarding name, age, dominant hand, duration of hours spent on mobile phone, visual analog scale, etc. along with Neck disability index. Later, their hand performance was checked using Jebsen Taylor Hand Function test for both non dominant and dominant hand. Result - The data was not normally distributed so Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to assess the correlation between neck disability index and hand function test. Results were found to be statistically significant at 5% level. "r" value was calculated between NDI and all the seven tasks of JTHFT for both Non dominant and dominant hand's function separately. With regard to hand dominance, this study revealed that whole population wrote faster with dominant hand as compared to non dominant hand. Conclusion - This study provides evidence that hand dominance has an important role as it can affect hand functioning. Especially high-level fine dexterity activities can be altered with prolonged texting.
- Subjects
HAND physiology; COLLEGE students; NECK pain; CROSS-sectional method; SMARTPHONES; VISUAL analog scale; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NECK; STATISTICAL correlation; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Indian Journal of Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 4, p13
- ISSN
0973-5674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37506/ijpot.v14i4.11292