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A network analysis reveals the interaction between fear and physical features in people with neck pain.
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Abstract
Although neck pain is known to be a complex and multifactorial condition characterised by the interplay between physical and psychological domains, a comprehensive investigation examining the interactions across multiple features is still lacking. In this study, we aimed to unravel the structure of associations between physical measures of neuromuscular function and fear of movement in people with a history of neck pain. One hundred participants (mean age 33.3 ± 9.4) were assessed for this cross-sectional study, and the neuromuscular and kinematic features investigated were the range of motion, velocity of neck movement, smoothness of neck movement, neck proprioception (measured as the joint reposition error), and neck flexion and extension strength. The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia was used to assess fear of movement. A network analysis was conducted to estimate the associations across features, as well as the role of each feature in the network. The estimated network revealed that fear of movement and neuromuscular/kinematic features were conditionally dependent. Higher fear of movement was associated with a lower range of motion, velocity, smoothness of neck movement, neck muscle strength, and proprioception (partial correlations between - 0.05 and - 0.12). Strong interactions were also found between kinematics features, with partial correlations of 0.39 and 0.58 between the range of motion and velocity, and between velocity and smoothness, respectively. The velocity of neck movement was the most important feature in the network since it showed the highest strength value. Using a novel approach to analysis, this study revealed that fear of movement can be associated with a spectrum of neuromuscular/kinematic adaptations in people with a history of neck pain.
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