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Abstract

Background: Repetitive movements of thumb lead to repetitive strain injury. Repetitive strain injurycauses inflammation and swelling of tendons. The over use of thumb predisposes the users painfulthumbObjective: The objective of study was to evaluate the prevalence of de Quervain's syndrome amongmobile users.Methodology: Total 384 cases of thumb pain age range from 16-30 years of both genders wereselected. Patients with thumb fracture and having De quervain's syndrome but not using mobilephone were excluded. Informed consent was taken from each person meeting the inclusion criteria,explaining to them the purpose of the study and ensuring the confidentiality of information. Data wascollected by filling the designed questionnaire.Results: Mean age of patients was 22.43 ± 4.02 years.Out of these 384 patients, 247 (64.32%) weremale and 137 (35.58%) were females with male to female ratio of 1.8:1. De Quervain's syndrome waspresent in 223 (58.07%) while 161 (41.93%) patients had no De Quervain's syndrome.Conclusion: This study concluded that the prevalence of de Quervain's syndrome among mobileusers is relatively high. Moreover, majority of patients affected were young teenagers male.Keywords: Tenosynovitis, text messaging, teenagers.