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BACKGROUND: In India, there had been a steady rise of 1.5 times post Covid-19 2020 from 2016 to 2021. the smartphone had proven to be the most dependable device for communication, entertainment, and various other functions. Children and adolescents today increasingly influenced, which ultimately leads to spent more time at phone. In healthcare professionals, it is found that 35-45% of physicians, nurses, and midwives suffered from neck, shoulder, and upper back pain. Also a significant increased in the incidence of emotional problems among excessive smartphone users like depression, sleep problems, anxiety, and a high level of perceived stress. OBJECTIVES: To find out the impact of smartphone addiction on neck pain and disability in healthcare professionals which were already at the many Musculo-skeletal disorders. Also, to suggest and conclude the study with its emerging findings. METHODOLOGY: An observational study was conducted on health professionals in Banas kantha District, using a SAS-SV online questionnaire. Data was collected with 10 questionnaires filled out using Google Forms as a web-based questionnaire. RESULT: The final analysis of the data shown that 19.8% in the no addiction, 55.9% in high risk of addiction and 24.3% of professionals were in addicted category. CONCLUSION: There was a moderate correlation between the smartphone addiction and neck disability among the health professionals. Ergonomic education for professionals regarding usage of smartphones and awareness about the possible musculoskeletal problems is required.