Smartphone ownership and screen time are increasing across the world, but there have
been few attempts to quantify smartphone addiction on a global scale. We conducted a meta …

Smartphone use can lead to smartphone addiction, which is a growing concern worldwide.
However, there are limited studies about smartphone addiction and its impacts on university …

Background Up to 67% of adults experience shoulder pain in their lifetime. Numerous
factors are related to the etiology of shoulder pain, one of which is thought to be scapular …

Given that problematic smartphone use (PSU) has been researched for a long time, it
becomes necessary to assess how the trends of PSU prevalence have evolved over time. In …

Smartphone overuse and addiction is a growing concern worldwide. However, there are
limited studies about smartphone addiction and its impacts on university students in Saudi …

Background Frequent smartphone use in a pathological way forces the user to adopt a
compromised posture. This gradually results in changes to both the postural and …

Background The fact that female college students are more addicted to smartphones than
male college students has raised public concerns. However, previous studies have rarely …

Background and Objectives: To investigate the effect of whole-body stretching (WBS)
exercise during lunch break for reducing musculoskeletal pain and physical exertion among …

This study performed a cross-cultural adaptation and identified validity evidences of the
smartphone addiction scale-long version (SAS-LV) in a sample of Brazilian university …

Objective: Due to social distancing guidelines during the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
pandemic, most providers and patients have wanted to avoid close contact. This makes …