Smartphones become essential in the lives of modern society. Smartphones indeed become a necessity in a person’s life, but with all its advantages, smartphones also make an impact that is not always good. The use of smartphones can interfere with a person’s health status, one of which can trigger a headache (headaches), including students. Head pain is reported to be the most complaints occurring in the neurology clinic. Head pain can be connected with a smartphone too long, and this often happens to students. Where the reason students use smartphones is to socialize cyberspace by using chat apps, browsing social media, playing games, listening to music, as well as finding literature for lectures.
Smartphones can do many things, and this makes it impossible for users to escape objects. However, if the excessive use of smartphones lasts a long time, there is a lot of harm. Some of these disadvantages include dry eyes, blurred vision, headache, neck and back pain, cybersickness, and the worse is depression. Prolonged and frequent use of smartphones can cause headaches — mainly head pain. The radiation from the smartphone can cause stimulation disturbances in cortical and brainstem, thus causing changes in blood circulation in the brain and activating the brainstem. Furthermore, pain receptors will respond and have a primary head pain in smartphone users.
The results of a study conducted by Wahyuni et al (2020) reported that long-time experience of headache in the students of smartphone users varies. Still, most are felt less than 30 minutes, where the head pain is felt pulsed and occurs on one side of the head alone (unilateral). Almost all students feel mild head pain, with a numeric pain Rating Scale (NPRS) is a range of 1 – 4 of the total of 10, headaches will gain weight with activity. The study also conveyed that there are several factors related to the headaches event in the smartphone student user, i.e., the duration and frequency of smartphone usage. What is the level of smartphone radiation of headache?
Author: David Wade
Link: https://www.psychosocial.com/article/PR270735/18680/
