Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2019

EFFECTS OF EXERCISES ON PINCH STRENGTH AMONG SMARTPHONE OVERUSERS

Sandhiya. M, Priya Kumari, Kamali. R

Abstract :

A smart phone is a mobile personal computer with an advanced mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or handheld use. It enables use of many social networking services like such as twitter and facebook functions of calling and texting. Repetitive strain injury one of the musculoskeletal diseases, where RSI syndrome is associated with the hands with overly repetitive finger use, as of writing a text message. Smartphone addiction is defined as excessive use of smart phone that affects the daily lives of uses and as various clinical features including salience, tolerance, and loss of control, mood modification, withdrawal symptoms and craving. Recent investigations have shown that smart phone users tend to report pain in the neck, shoulder and thumb and the severity of the symptoms. Pinch grip defined as the force exerted when using the index finger and thumb. It is measured by pinch dynamometer. The overuses of the smart phone may affect the flexor pollicis longus tendon and joint of the thumb. Methods and materials: Thirty individuals with the age group of 18–21 years. Irrespective to the gender. Hand putty and resistive hand exercise was given to the experimental group and hand putty exercise given to control group. Where the outcome measures was mentioned as Smartphone Addiction Scale and pinch guage.RESULT: The result stated that by compå the mean difference for two group. We concluded the pinch improvement for group A which is hand putty with resistive hand exercise when compared to group B which is hand putty exercise. This result found statistical significant at p<0.0001 for both the groups..

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EFFECTS OF EXERCISES ON PINCH STRENGTH AMONG SMARTPHONE OVERUSERS, Sandhiya.M, Priya kumari, Kamali. R PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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