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To assess whether there is a correlation between neck pain and text neck among young adults.
Addiction
to the use of mobile phones among the young adults for texting is drastically
increased during the 21st century. The number of studies reported
the increased prevalence of neck pain with wrong head posture during the mobile
usage, but its association between neck posture and neck pain is still unclear.
Therefore in this study, the author showed that improper head and neck posture
during mobile phone usage is the major cause of the growing prevalence of neck
pain.
To assess whether there is a correlation between neck
pain and text neck among young adults.
A total of 150 adults of age 8–21 year from a public
school of the Rio de Janeiro were selected. The adults filled a self-report
questionnaire related to anthropometric factors, concern with the body posture,
sociodemographic factors, the time consumed playing or texting on a mobile
phone, and visual impairments.
Participants’ self-perception and physiotherapists’ judgment was
utilized to assess the neck posture during a mobile phone texting message task.
Further, the neck pain was evaluated using a Young Spine Questionnaire. Considering
potential confounding factors, the association between the neck posture during
mobile phone texting and neck pain was assessed by applying the four
multivariate logistic regression models.
No relationship was seen neither between neck posture,
assessed by physiotherapists’ judgment, and neck pain and related frequency nor
between neck posture, assessed by self-perception, and neck pain and related
frequency.
No association was noticed between the neck pain and text
neck among the young adults.
Eur Spine J. 2018 Jan 6
Text neck and neck pain in 18–21-year-old young adults
Gerson Moreira Damasceno et al.
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