Year: 2024 | Month: March | Volume: 14 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 212-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240331
Correlation of Chronic Neck Pain and Eye Hand Coordination in Smart Phone Users
Prachi Panchal1, Dr. Vidhi Upadhyay (PT)2
1MPT student, Apollo Institute of Physiotherapy, Gujarat university, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
2Assistant Professor, Apollo Institute of Physiotherapy, Ahmedabad, India
Corresponding Author: Prachi Panchal
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Mobile phones are considered to be the most popular portable electronic device nowadays. Recent estimates showed that at least 77% of the world’s population has their own mobile phone. Smartphone is one tool or media that many students and adolescents at the present moment used for learning purposes. Neck pain occurs with poor posture. It is commonly adopted while smartphone users view the visual display terminals of smartphones. Although it is clear that the neck is the commonly reported to have the highest pain among smartphone users. Hand eye coordination is the ability to use motor and visual skills to produce a coordinated movement. An activity that uses the information perceived by our eyes to control our hands. The eye is used to transmit visual information. The hand is used to perform a specific task based on visual information received from the eye.
Purpose of the study: The aim of the study is to find out the correlation of chronic neck pain and eye hand coordination in smart phone users.
Need of the study: Smart phone users often spend extended periods in neck flexion position at the present moment used for learning purposed, connected with internet services will help find information and knowledge which may lead to discomfort and pain in the neck. Eye hand coordination is the ability to perform activities requires the simultaneous use of our hands and eyes in smart phone users.
Methodology: Age criteria between younger and middle are included in the study. Individuals fulfilling inclusion criteria were selected. Every individual where chronic neck pain was more than six month and pain were measured using Visual analog scale (VAS) and neck disability index (NDI), Hand eye coordination using wall ball bounce task. (WBB)
Result: The collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 26. The data was not normally distributed. The spearman’s correlation showed that there was a significant moderate negative correlation between the NDI and WBT with (r= -0.463) (p=0.000) and VAS and WBT with (r = -0.557) (p = 0.000)
Key words: Chronic neck pain, Hand eye coordination, Wall ball bounce task, Visual analog scale