Abstract

Objective: To find the association between smartphone usage and text neck syndrome and to assess the frequency of text neck syndrome among young adults during quarantine period of covid-19 pandemic.
Methodology: This cross sectional study was conducted on 184 young adults using non-probability convenient sampling technique. The data were collected from different institutes of Lahore. We used Neck disability Index and Nomophobia questionnaire.
Results: Out of 184 participants, 64.7% were female and 35.3% were male. Mean age was 21.8478±2 years. 76.6% of the participants had text neck syndrome in the study. There was no disability (0-4 scores) in 26.6% young adults, mild disability (5-14 score) in 30.4% young adults and moderate disability (15-24 scores) in 28.8% young adults with p

Key words: Text neck, neck pain, smart phone.