High variability of the subjective visual vertical test of vertical perception, in some people with neck pain – Should this be a standard measure of cervical proprioception?

Explicit and Implicit Own's Body and Space Perception in Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping Review

“…Five full-texts were not found and 96 were excluded with reasons (see the Supplementary Table S7). Ten additional studies (Grod and Diakow, 2002;Barker et al, 2008;Wand et al, 2010Wand et al, , 2011Preston and Newport, 2011;Nishigami et al, 2012;Diers et al, 2013;Ryan et al, 2014;Treleaven and Takasaki, 2015;Beales et al, 2016) were identified and considered eligible by searching the reference lists of included papers and reviews considered of interest for the aim of this work. Thirty-seven studies, analysing an overall sample of 1291 patients (1,094 in evaluation studies, and 197 for interventions ones), were included in the qualitative analysis and the end of the selection process (see the Figure 2 for a flowchart of the entire process).…”

“…A graphical distribution of included studies grouped by clinical conditions examined is shown in Figure 3. Twenty-five studies (Grod and Diakow, 2002;Moseley, 2008;Wand et al, 2010Wand et al, , 2013bWand et al, , 2014Wand et al, , 2016Docherty et al, 2012;Lauche et al, 2012a;Valenzuela-Moguillansky, 2013;Hirakawa et al, 2014;Gilpin et al, 2015;Mibu et al, 2015;Nishigami et al, 2015Nishigami et al, , 2017Nishigami et al, , 2018Treleaven and Takasaki, 2015;Beales et al, 2016;Janssens et al, 2017;Moreira et al, 2017;Adamczyk et al, 2018a,b;Ehrenbrusthoff et al, 2018;Magni et al, 2018;Martínez et al, 2018) studies concerned the assessment of SoP dysfunctions, while twelve interventional studies (Barker et al, 2008;Preston and Newport, 2011;Wand et al, 2011Wand et al, , 2013aMorone et al, 2012;Paolucci et al, 2012;Diers et al, 2013;Vetrano et al, 2013;Ryan et al, 2014;Louw et al, 2017;Stanton et al, 2018;Nishigami et al, 2019) investigated the effects of perception-based intervention to reduce pain or to correct perceptual distortions. One study, (Lauche et al, 2012a) was included both in assessment and in intervention studies: it is a qualitative study i...…”

Dizziness, Unsteadiness, Visual Disturbances, and Sensorimotor Control in Traumatic Neck Pain

“…But, a recent study demonstrated altered vertical perception in those with INP but not WAD. 125 It was suggested that this might have been due to the complexity of the measure; therefore, as is, vertical alignment perception may not be a suitable measure of cervical proprioception in those with traumatic neck pain.…”

Re: “High variability of the subjective visual vertical test of vertical perception, in some people with neck pain – Should this be a standard measure of cervical proprioception?”

“…We read with interest the article on increased variability in neck pain subjects when aligning a rod to vertical using the computerised rod-and-frame test (Treleaven & Takasaki, 2015). This prompted us to re-examine data we previously published on visual vertical and neck pain, also using the computerised rod-and-frame test (Bagust, et al, 2005;Docherty et al, 2012).…”

“…This prompted us to re-examine data we previously published on visual vertical and neck pain, also using the computerised rod-and-frame test (Bagust, et al, 2005;Docherty et al, 2012). Using analysis similar to that employed by Treleaven & Takasaki (2015) and Nyborg (1974), for determining Variable Error (VE) and Response Consistency (σ) respectively, we have calculated Variability as SD around the mean signed rod alignment error when the surrounding frame was tilted 18° from gravitational vertical in both clockwise and counter clockwise directions (Table 1).…”