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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4072</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131713</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>An Extensive Usage of Hand-Held Devices will Lead to Musculoskeletal Disorder Among Paramedical Students of Parul University&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>D</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>G</surname><given-names>Ishita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>V</surname><given-names>Umang</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>C</surname><given-names>Darshana</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>12</day><month>09</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>7)</volume><issue/><fpage>65</fpage><lpage>68</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: The usage of hand-held device is increasing with within the adolescents consistent with survey conducted in China, in the year 2018 the share of individuals using smartphones has drastically increased up to 98.6%.consistent with a study conducted by Alphas an et al. in the year 2016 there have been about 52.7% males and 46.9% females who were having their age between 18 to 23 and that they were considered to be addicted for the usage of smartphones. consistent with a study conducted by Alosaimi et al. about 27.2% of people are coming under the age of 20 to 24 years who were using their smartphones for over 8 hours. Topic: An extensive usage of hand-held devices will lead to musculoskeletal disorder among paramedical students of Parul University. Objective: The objective of this study is to find the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder in the upper extremity among students of Parul University due to extensive usage of hand-held devices. As the usage of the hand-held device is increasing nowadays. Method: The subjects were paramedical students at Parul University. 215 subjects were included in this study out of which 209 were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, the data was collected through a google form. Outcome Measure: DASH questionnaire. Results: Results showed that there was a moderate prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder within the upper extremity due to extensive usage of hand-held devices among paramedical students of the Parul University. Conclusion: Hand-held devices have become a crucial part of life. However, their extensive usage may lead to musculoskeletal disorders keeping this into considerations, further studies should be done in future for spreading awareness among the users.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Hand-held device</kwd><kwd> Extensive</kwd><kwd> Typing</kwd><kwd> Musculoskeletal disorders</kwd><kwd> DASH</kwd><kwd> Cell phone</kwd><kwd> Upper extremity</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
