Comparative joint position error in patients with non-specific neck disorders and asymptomatic age-matched individuals
South African Journal of Physiotherapy
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Comparative joint position error in patients with non-specific neck disorders and asymptomatic age-matched individuals | |
| Creator | Quartey, Jonathan Ernst, Markus Bello, Ajediran Oppong-Yebaoah, Bertha Bonney, Emmanuel Acquaah, Kow Asomaning, Felix Foli, Margaret Asante, Sandra Schaemann, Astrid Bauer, Christoph | |
| Description | Background: Neck pain is a common complaint worldwide and ranked seventh in 2010 as the cause of ‘years lived with disability’ in Ghana. Proprioceptive dysfunction, measured by joint position error (JPE) tests, indicates an association with neck pain frequency, dizziness and balance problems in patients.Objectives: To examine proprioceptive deficits of the neck using a laser pointer attached to the head.Methods: Twenty patients within the age group 21–60 years, with at least five points on the neck disability index (NDI), and 20 age- and sex-matched controls with less than five points on the NDI were recruited for this study. The JPE was determined wearing a headlight laser pointer directed towards a Cartesian coordinate system adjusted to x/y = 0/0, placed on a wall after returning from left and right rotation, flexion and extension. From starting in an upright sitting position, facing the Cartesian coordinate system, each participant performed five repetitions for each movement direction. The mean of five repetitions for each movement direction was calculated as absolute error (AE), constant error (CE) and variable error (VE).Results: Control participants showed larger JPE values for nearly all AE, CE and VE. After repositioning from flexion controls showed an approximately 0.6 ° larger median JPE, and the opposite for extension, with median differences between 1 ° and 2 °.Conclusion: The results of this study do not reveal any meaningful differences between patients with mild disabled neck movement compared with controls.Clinical implications: Joint position error testing does not seem useful for patients with mild neck disability. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2019-06-27 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajp.v75i1.568 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Physiotherapy; Vol 75, No 1 (2019); 7 pages 2410-8219 0379-6175 | |
| Language | eng | |
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