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De Quervain Syndrome Among Medical Students with Smart Phone Addiction

ConditionsDe Quervain TenosynovitisSmartphone Addiction
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18-25
SponsorCairo University

About this trial

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

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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.

Disqualifiers

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.

Trial population

The study population will be recruited from the medical collages of Cairo University in Egypt

Trial design

Design model

Case-only

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Hand grip strength dynamometer, pinch strength dynamometer

    Device

    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 test

    Diagnostic test

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

Treatment groups

103 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: One group will be assigned2 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

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

Time frame
1 Day
2

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

1

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

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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Cairo University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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