De Quervain Syndrome Among Medical Students with Smart Phone Addiction

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT06731634

Cairo University103 enrolled

Overview

To investigate the prevelance of the de quervain tenosynovitis among the Egyptian medical students with smartphone addiction

Addictive participants will be assigned and enrolled in the study according to there addiction score on smartphone addiction scale. Participants will receive a Finkelstein test for both dominant and non dominant hand for the de quervain tenosynovitis. Then the strentgh of both hand grip and pinch grip for both hands will be tested using hand grip strength dynamometer and pinch strentgh dynamometer.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

103

Conditions

De Quervain Tenosynovitis Smartphone Addiction

Interventions

Hand grip strength dynamometer, pinch strength dynamometerDEVICE

Both devices will be used to assign the strength of grip and pinch for both dominant and non dominant hands by using jamar hydraulic hand grip strength dynamometer and Jamar hydraulic pinch strength dynamometer

Finkelstein testDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Finkelstein test which is used to diagnose the de quervain tenosynovitis and it will be used to assist the people with smartphone addiction

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 25 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Asymptomatic students with normal healthy state * Any student in all the academic years with age 18-25 * Addictive smart phone users with score over 31 for male and 33 for female students in smart phone addiction scale. * Who own or use mobile. * Both genders: male and female * Willing to participate. * Egyptian students Exclusion Criteria: * Those who don't have mobile phone. * Any previous injury or trauma or surgery and a history of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and deformities and changes in the shape of the finger joints. * Those who are not willing to participate. * Non-Egyptian students.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Dominant hand grip strength and Non-Dominant hand grip strength by the using of jamar hydraulic grip strength dynamometer

Time frame: 1 Day

Dominant hand pinch strength and non-dominant hand pinch strength by the using of jamar hydraulic pinch strength dynamometer

Time frame: 1 Day

Secondary Outcomes

The degree of pain during the finkelstein test by the using of visual analoug scale

The visual analoug scale (vas) will be used to identify the degree of pain that the participant felt during the finkelstein test the scale values are from 0mm to 100mm 0mm means he didn't feel any pain which is good, 100mm means he felt the morst pain which is bad

Time frame: 1 Day

Central Contacts

Maher Ahmed ElKeblawy, PhD of physical therapy

CONTACT

+0201001419544 maherkabalawy@gmail.com

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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