The diagnostic validity of the cervical flexion-rotation test in C1/2-related cervicogenic headache

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-262

  Ogince, Mark ^a   Hall, Toby ^a   Robinson, Kim ^a   Blackmore, A M ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

C1 2 segment; Manual examination; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL FLEXION ROTATION TEST; CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRAINE AURA; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PASSIVE SEGMENTAL MOBILITY TEST; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 34347246657     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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