Correlation Between BMI and Craniovertebral Angle and Their Impact on Hand Grip Strength and Neck Functional Disability in Egyptian University Student

Correlation Between BMI and Craniovertebral Angle and Their Impact on Hand Grip Strength and Neck Functional Disability in Egyptian University Student

Objective: To find the relation between cranio-vertebral angle and hand grip strength in university student mobile users.

Design: cross sectional study. Setting: Ahram Candian University Subjects:100 male and female university students with age ranged from 20 to 30 years old will participate in this study.

Intervention: cross sectional study to detect the relation between cranio-vertebral angle and hand grip strength in university student mobile users.

Main measures:

• FHP app (Pyeongtaek, South Korea) mobile application
• Hand dynamometer (the JAMAR® Hydraulic Hand) (Lupton-Smith et al.,2022)
• Mechanical height and weight scale
• Visual Analogue Scale
• Arabic Neck Disability Index Results: The results will be obtained via one-way analyses of variance (ANOVA).

Inclusion Criteria:

• • Their ages will range from 20-30 years old.

  • Their BMI will be between than 20- 30kg/m2.
  • All of them suffer from mild degree of neck pain.
  • The subjects complain from neck pain for 1 month ago

• Exclusion criteria:

Exclusion criteria were a history of any of the following condition:

• inflammatory diseases or any rheumatic disorders,
• a history of vertebral fractures
• surgical spinal fixation.
• •any neurological disorders like MS