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Novel insights into the interplay between ventral neck muscles in individuals with whiplash-associated disorders.
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- Effect of neck-specific exercises with and without internet support on cervical range of motion and neck muscle endurance in chronic whiplash-associated disorders: analysis of functional outcomes of a randomized controlled trial.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2024Trial
- Efficacy of Neck-Specific Exercise With Internet Support Versus Neck-Specific Exercise at a Physiotherapy Clinic in Chronic Whiplash-Associated Disorders: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Neck-specific exercise for radiating pain and neurological deficits in chronic whiplash, a 1-year follow-up of a randomised clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2020Trial
- Exercise, headache, and factors associated with headache in chronic whiplash: Analysis of a randomized clinical trial.Medicine · 2019Trial
- The effect of three exercise approaches on health-related quality of life, and factors associated with its improvement in chronic whiplash-associated disorders: analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Neck-specific exercise may reduce radiating pain and signs of neurological deficits in chronic whiplash - Analyses of a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Neck-specific exercise improves impaired interactions between ventral neck muscles in chronic whiplash: A randomized controlled ultrasound study.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Neck-specific exercises with internet-based support compared to neck-specific exercises at a physiotherapy clinic for chronic whiplash-associated disorders: study protocol of a randomized controlled multicentre trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2017Trial
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- Neck muscle function improves after neck exercises in individuals with whiplash-associated disorders: a case-control ultrasound study with speckle-tracking analyses.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The effect of a neck-specific exercise program on cervical kinesthesia for patients with chronic whiplash-associated disorders: a case-control study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
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- The nosological classification of whiplash-associated disorder: a narrative review.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2021Article
- Ultrasound imaging of dorsal neck muscles with speckle tracking analyses - the relationship between muscle deformation and force.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Pathophysiology behind prolonged whiplash associated disorders: study protocol for an experimental study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019Article
- Multivariate analysis of ultrasound-recorded dorsal strain sequences: Investigation of dynamic neck extensions in women with chronic whiplash associated disorders.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
Chronic whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) is common after whiplash injury, with considerable personal, social, and economic burden. Despite decades of research, factors responsible for continuing pain and disability are largely unknown, and diagnostic tools are lacking. Here, we report a novel model of mechanical ventral neck muscle function recorded from non-invasive, real-time, ultrasound measurements. We calculated the deformation area and deformation rate in 23 individuals with persistent WAD and compared them to 23 sex- and age-matched controls. Multivariate statistics were used to analyse interactions between ventral neck muscles, revealing different interplay between muscles in individuals with WAD and healthy controls. Although the cause and effect relation cannot be established from this data, for the first time, we reveal a novel method capable of detecting different neck muscle interplay in people with WAD. This non-invasive method stands to make a major breakthrough in the assessment and diagnosis of people following a whiplash trauma.
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