The presence of painful upper cervical joint dysfunction is a diagnostic criterion for cervicogenic headache. This preliminary study investigated whether independent examiners for a planned multicentre study of treatment of cervicogenic headache sufferers would agree on the presence or not of joint dysfunction for inclusion/exclusion of subjects into the trial. Ten subjects with or without neck pain and headache were recruited in each of four centres (total 40 subjects). Examiners manually assessed subjects' upper cervical regions in a single blind manner. There was excellent to complete agreement between each pair of examiners on which subjects should be allowed to enter the study and 70 per cent agreement between examiners on the two most dysfunctional joints in symptomatic subjects. There can be confidence that an homogenous headache group will enter the planned trial.
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