Determining risk factors and establishing preventative strategies of neck pain development due to smartphone use.
Overview Specific Aim (SA) #1 is to determine the percentage of people with flexion induced neck pain development and its repeatability. Based on our preliminary data, we hypothesize (i) that half of our sample will develop neck pain after smartphone use, and (ii) this pain development will be repeatable during exposures on different days. Specific Aim #2 is to determine clinical measures to differentiate those that do and do not develop flexion induced neck pain. We hypothesize that clinical measures related to posture and muscular strength will be different between those who develop pain and those who do not.
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