ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2012
Cervical range of motion and strength in 4,293 young male adults with chronic neck pain.
Article in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05541848 (Clinical Benefits of a Multimodal Physiotherapy Programme in Fighter Pilots With Flight-related Neck Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Clinical Benefits of a Multimodal Physiotherapy Programme in Fighter Pilots With Flight-related Neck Pain
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- Evaluation of Apparatus and Protocols to Measure Human Passive Neck Stiffness and Range of Motion.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
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- Assessment from a Biopsychosocial Approach of Flight-Related Neck Pain in Fighter Pilots of Spanish Air Force. An Observational Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Patient-specific numerical investigation of the correction of cervical kyphotic deformity based on a retrospective clinical case.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Neck Pain: Do We Know Enough About the Sensorimotor Control System?Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2022Review
- Normative cervical spine kinematics of a circumduction task.Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology · 2021Article
- Clinical impact of 3-level anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) on the occipito-atlantoaxial complex: a retrospective study of patients who received a zero-profile anchored spacer versus cage-plate construct.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Article
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- Answer to the letter to the editor of Hilla Sarig Bahat entitled "Do these large numbers contrast multiple smaller-number prior studies?" : Re: Kauther et al. 2012, Cervical range of motion and strength in 4,293 young male adults with chronic neck pain. European spine journal 21:1522-1527.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2013Article
- Do these large numbers contrast multiple smaller-number prior studies? : RE: Kauther et al. 2012, Cervical range of motion and strength in 4,293 young male adults with chronic neck pain. European spine journal 21:1522-1527.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2013Article
- Development of the circumduction metric for identification of cervical motion impairment.Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineeringArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe correlation of cervical biomechanics and neck pain in young patients has, to date, only been described in terms of small cohorts. This study focuses on the correlation of chronic neck pain and cervical biomechanics.
methodsNeck pain, cervical range of motion (CROM) and maximal cervical torque were recorded in 746 patients with conservatively treated chronic neck pain and 3,547 participants of physiotherapy training without chronic neck pain aged 16-32 years.
resultsThe "neck pain" group had a highly significant (s < 0.001) higher neck disability index (44.7 vs. 10.4%), longer history of neck pain (3.47 vs. 0.59 years), higher pain intensity (VAS 5.93 vs. 0.93), higher pain frequency (VAS 6.98 vs. 1.09). No differences of CROM and maximal torque in the sagittal, frontal and transverse plane were found.
conclusionThis study describes the largest cohort of biomechanical data of the cervical spine in young adult recorded to date. The findings demonstrate that no correlation was found between neck pain, CROM and maximal torque in the study cohort. On this basis, we conclude that the CROM and maximal cervical torque should not be used as indicators to measure the progress of chronic neck pain in physiotherapy training and sports medicine for the young adult.
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