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Movement Retraining using Real-time Feedback of Performance

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Published on: January 17, 2013

An immediate effect of axial neck rotation training with real time visual feedback using a smartphone inclinometer on

Kyue-Nam Park¹, Oh-Yun Kwon², Si-Hyun Kim³

¹a Department of Physical Therapy , College of Medical Science, Jeonju University , Jeonju , South Korea.

Physiotherapy Theory and Practice

|January 18, 2017

Abstract

Objectives:

The purpose of this study was to compare the immediate effects of axial neck rotation training (Axi-NRT) with and without real-time visual feedback (VF) using a smartphone inclinometer on the range of motion (ROM) for axial neck rotation and the onset of compensatory neck lateral bending and extension during active neck rotation.

Methods:

Twenty participants with restricted ROM for neck rotation but no neck pain (21.1 ± 1.6 years and 8 males, 12 females) were recruited for Axi-NRT with VF, and twenty age- and gender-matched participants with restricted ROM for neck rotation were recruited for Axi-NRT without VF. Changes in ROM for neck rotation and the onset time of compensatory neck movement during active neck rotation were measured using an electromagnetic tracking system.

Results:

Axi-NRT with VF was more effective in increasing ROM for neck rotation and decreasing and delaying the onset of compensatory neck movements during active neck rotation compared with Axi-NRT without VF.

Conclusions:

Repeated Axi-NRT using VF is useful to educate participants in maintaining the axis of the cervical spine and to increase ROM for axial neck rotation with less compensatory neck motion in participants with a restricted range of neck rotations.

Keywords:

Neck rotation range of motion training visual feedback

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