Cervicocephalic kinesthetic sensibility in young and middle-aged adults with or without a history of mild neck pain

Neck motion, motor control, pain and disability: A longitudinal study of associations in neck pain patients in physiotherapy treatment

“…Several studies are in agreement with no deficit in proprioception measured by JPE in NP compared to healthy subjects [14,47,48]. However, other have found that neck pain subjects had significantly larger repositioning error [49], or significantly larger variable error compared to healthy subjects [6].…”

Cervical proprioception is sufficient for head orientation after bilateral vestibular loss

“…NHP was reproduced without any passive repositioning to refNHP by the tester between each repositioning. Our procedure diVered thus somewhat from Revel et al (1991), but was similar to other authors (Demaille-Wlodyka et al 2007;Lee et al 2008;Teng et al 2007). The repositioning without adjustments to zero between the trials was made in order to detect any possible drift, with the overall aim to detect possible diVerences between the tested groups.…”

“…Age has been demonstrated to inXuence sensorimotor performance (Heikkila and Wenngren 1998;Vuillerme et al 2008) as well as to aVect repositioning tests in a direction-speciWc manner (Teng et al 2007). There was an uneven distribution between men and women in our BV group and the controls were on average Wve years younger.…”

Using the cervical range of motion (CROM) device to assess head repositioning accuracy in individuals with cervical radiculopathy in comparison to neck- healthy individuals

“…However, the influence of age on HRA is controversial (Teng et al, 2007;Vuillerme et al, 2008) and thus could still represent a source of bias in the present study considering that individuals with CDD were significantly older. Individuals with CDD had higher BMIs, were less physically active, and there was a small imbalance in sex compared with the neck-healthy individuals, but these differences are not expected to have influenced the results since HRA has not been associated with demographic variables.…”