Immediate effects of active cranio-cervical flexion exercise versus passive mobilisation of the upper cervical spine on pain and performance on the cranio-cervical flexion test

Manual Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-31

  Lluch, Enrique ^a   Schomacher, Jochen ^b   Gizzi, Leonardo ^c   Petzke, Frank ^c   Seegar, Dagmar ^c   Falla, Deborah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b University Hospital Göttingen ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMG; Exercise; Intervention; Mobilization; Neck pain

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CRANIO CERVICAL FLEXION EXERCISE; ACTIVE CRANIO CERVICAL FLEXION TEST; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANTERIOR SCALENE MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CRANIO CERVICAL FLEXION EXERCISE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NECK PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PASSIVE MOBILISATION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; THERAPY EFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INTERVENTION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84891634383     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2013.05.011     Document Type: Article

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