A comparison of muscle activity in using touchscreen smartphone among young people with and without chronic neck–shoulder pain

Abstract

This study demonstrated that symptomatic individuals had increased muscle activity in the neck–shoulder region when texting on a smartphone. Contemporary ergonomic guidelines should include advice on how to interact with handheld electronic devices to achieve a relaxed posture and reduced muscle load in order to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders.

Ergonomics at 60: mature, thriving and still leading the way

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Understanding Patterns for Smartphone Addiction: Age, Sleep Duration, Social Network Use and Fear of Missing Out

“…spending more time on smartphones than planned (Caplan & High, 2006), are considered to be the reason for this situation. Examples of problems caused by an uncontrollable urge for smartphone use include (a) the phenomenon of "texting while driving", which has been associated with many traffic accidents and risks (Cazzulino, Burke, Muller, Arbogast, & Upperman, 2014;Haigney & Westerman, 2001;McEvoy et al, 2005;Thompson, Baldock, Mathias, & Wundersitz, 2013), (b) manual, spinal and cervical health problems (Shan et al, 2013;Xie, Szeto, Dai, & Madeleine, 2016), (c) psychological stress and depression (Elhai, Dvorak, Levine, & Hall, 2017;Thomée, Härenstam, & Hagberg, 2011), (d) poor sleep quality (Li, Lepp, & Barkley, 2015;Soni, Upadhyay, & Jain, 2017), and (e) low academic performance (Alosaimi, Alyahya, Alshahwan, Al Mahyijari, & Shaik, 2016;Junco & Cotton, 2012;Lepp, Barkley, & Karpinski, 2015;. In particular, adolescents and young adults spend a great portion of their day using their smartphones (Kumcagiz & Gunduz, 2016) as an intense and passionate means of communicating with their friends; transferring their experiences as well as following the "daily progress" of others in social media posts.…”

Types of smartphone usage and relations with problematic smartphone behaviors: The role of content consumption vs. social smartphone use

“…For example, problematic smartphone use is related to traffic accidents (Cazzulino, Burke, Muller, Arbogast, & Upperman, 2014;Thompson, Rivara, Ayyagari, & Ebel, 2013), shoulder and neck problems (Shan et al, 2013;Xie, Szeto, Dai, & Madeleine, 2016), sleep impairment (Demirci, Akgonul, & Akpinar, 2015;Eyvazlou, Zarei, Rahimi, & Abazari, 2016), academic problems (Seo, Park, Kim, & Park, 2016), and poor physical fitness (Rebold, Sheehan, Dirlam, Maldonado, & O'Donnell, 2016). Furthermore, problematic smartphone use is related to mental health problems such as anxiety and depression (reviewed in .…”