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ArticleJournal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology2021

Normative cervical spine kinematics of a circumduction task.

Craig C Kage, Nathaniel E Helwig, Arin M Ellingson

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Article in Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Comparison of the immobilizing effect of soft, semi-rigid and rigid neck orthoses.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 · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Craig C KageDivision of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE MMC 388, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
Nathaniel E HelwigDepartment of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States; School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, 224 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
Arin M EllingsonDivision of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE MMC 388, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States; Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE MMC 388, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States. Electronic address: ellin224@umn.edu.

Funding

Interdisciplinary Engineering Career Development Center in Movement and Rehabilitation SciencesK12HD073945 · NICHD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI DEWALD, JULIUS P, REINKENSMEYER, DAVID JAY · 2012 to 2021
$7.9M
Musculoskeletal Training GrantT32AR050938 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI CLOHISY, DENIS R · 2004 to 2020
$3.0M
Intersegmental Dynamic Mechanisms of Neck Pain In VivoR03HD097715 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI ELLINGSON, ARIN M · 2019 to 2020
$300k
NIAMS NIH HHS T32 AR050938NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD073945NICHD NIH HHS R03 HD097715
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neck pain is a prevalent condition and clinical examination techniques are limited and unable to assess out-of-plane motion. Recent works investigating cervical kinematics during neck circumduction (NC), a dynamic 3D task, has shown the ability to discern those with and without neck pain. The purposes of this study were to establish 1) confidence and prediction intervals of head-to-torso kinematics during NC in a healthy cohort, 2) a baseline summative metric to quantify the duration and magnitude of deviations outside the prediction interval, and 3) the reliability of NC. Thirty-nine participants (25.6 ± 6.3 years, 19F/20M) without neck pain completed left and right NC. A two-way smoothing spline analysis of variance was utilized to determine the mean-fitted values and 90% confidence and prediction intervals for NC. A standardized effect size was calculated and aggregated across all axes (Delta RMSD aggregate), as a summative metric of motion quality. Confidence and prediction intervals were comparable for left and right NC and demonstrated excellent reliability. The average sum of the Delta RMSD aggregate was 2.76 ± 0.55 for left NC and 2.74 ± 0.63 for right NC. The results of this study demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing normative intervals of a NC task to assess head-to-torso kinematics.

Indexed as

Cervical VertebraeMuscle, SkeletalBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansRange of Motion, ArticularReproducibility of ResultsCervical spineCircumductionConfidence intervalKinematicsMotion analysisPrediction interval

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PMID34543984
PMCPMC8629927

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