Effects of experimental pain on the cervical spine reposition errors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthy subjects showed normal variance of cervical spine reposition errors of approximately 2 degrees. Effects of experimental pain on cervical spine reposition errors were unknown; thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of experimental pain on cervical spine reposition errors.

Methods

A repeated measured study design was applied. Thirty healthy subjects (12 males) were recruited. Reposition errors were extracted from upright cervical positions before and after cervical flexion movement in healthy subjects before and during experimental neck pain. Cervical spine reposition errors were calculated based on anatomical landmarks of each cervical joint. Reposition errors were extracted in degrees as constant errors and absolute errors for furth

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8932173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature