NCT06849687

Effect of Whole Body Vibration in Young Females With Smartphone Addiction

Effect of Whole Body Vibration on Hand Grip Strength, Muscular Activity, and Upper Limb Function in Young Females With Smartphone Addiction: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Young adults have a high prevalence of smartphone addiction. Many adolescents use their smartphones extensively for communication, which starts out as a habit but eventually turns into an addiction. Numerous studies have shown that adolescents use social media for roughly ten hours every day.

Conditions

• Smart Phone Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Whole body vibration	Participants will be asked to sit on an chair without armrests close to the platform and will be asked to perform 90° shoulder flexion, bend both elbows slightly, flex the trunk forwards and place both hands on the platform.
DEVICE	Sham Whole body vibration	Participants will receive the vibration with the device turned off.
OTHER	Strengthening exercises	Participants will use elastic resistance for the finger extension and flexion exercises, and ball to strength wrist flexors for two sets of 10 repetitions within a training session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-22
• Primary completion: 2025-10-30
• Completion: 2025-11-30
• First posted: 2025-02-27
• Last updated: 2025-12-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt