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

NCT ID: NCT05814289

Last Updated: 2025-04-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2023-04-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-07-01

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Forward Head Posture

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Healthy young adults group

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

Group Type: OTHER

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

Intervention Type: OTHER

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

Interventions

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

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

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Halime Arikan

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University

Merkez, Tokat Province, Turkey (Türkiye)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

83116987-712

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id