Evaluation of the Association between Neck Pain and the Trapezius Muscles in Patients with Cervical Myelopathy Using Motor Evoked Potential: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Asian Spine Journal, 2021 Study Design Retrospective study. Purpose We aimed to use motor evoked potentials (MEPs) to examine the association of electrophysiological assessment of the trapezius muscle with neck pain.
Sadayuki Ito +12 more
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Muscle activity on head-first compression responses of a finite element neck model
Forces in Mechanics, 2023 Effects of muscle activation on human neck kinematic responses under compressive loads have not been understood empirically due to the limitation of testing on in vivo test specimens.
Mohammad Nasim, Ugo Galvanetto
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Background: Neck pain (NP) is a frequent condition in women, characterized by exhibiting distinct clinical manifestations such as the presence of deep neck (DN) muscle weakness.
Pilar Pardos-Aguilella +6 more
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Activation of Neck and Low-Back Muscles Is Reduced with the Use of a Neck Balance System Together with a Lumbar Support in Urban Drivers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Driving is associated with high activation of low-back and neck muscles due to the sitting position and perturbations imposed by the vehicle. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of a neck balance system together with a lumbar support on the ...
Federica Menotti +5 more
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The inclusion of hyoid muscles improve moment generating capacity and dynamic simulations in musculoskeletal models of the head and neck. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 OpenSim musculoskeletal models of the head and neck can provide information about muscle activity and the response of the head and neck to a variety of situations.
Jonathan D Mortensen +2 more
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Elasticity of neck muscles in cervicogenic headache [PDF]
Biomedical Papers, 2022 To compare the elasticity of the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles in patients with cervicogenic headache and in healthy volunteers.The medical history of 23 patients with cervicogenic headache was taken with a focus on pain characteristics.
Sedláčková, Zuzana +5 more
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Specification of Neck Muscle Dysfunction through Digital Image Analysis Using Machine Learning
Diagnostics, 2022 Everyone has or will have experienced some degree of neck pain. Typically, neck pain is associated with the sensation of tense, tight, or stiff neck muscles. However, it is unclear whether the neck muscles are objectively stiffer with neck pain.
Filip Paskali +3 more
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Spatiotemporal symmetries in the disynaptic canal-neck projection [PDF]
, 2007 The vestibular system in almost all vertebrates, and in particular in humans, controls balance by employing a set of six semicircular canals, three in each inner ear, to detect angular accelerations of the head in three mutually orthogonal coordinate ...
Golubitsky, Martin +2 more
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STUDIES ON THE POST-CRANIAL MYOLOGY OF CHAMAELEON VULGARIS, FAMILY: CHAMAELEONTIDAE 1- AXIAL MUSCLES: CERVICAL REGION [PDF]
Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 1992 Studies of the present work revealed that, the cervical muscles of chamaeleon vulgaris are relatively short due to the reduction of the neck region and the anterior shift of the foramen magnum in respect with the parietal crests.
M.T. WAHBA, A. KHALIL, N.A. SHAWKI
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Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2019 We describe a patient with goose-neck posture as the presenting form of cervical dystonia. In our case, the bilateral semispinalis capitis muscles were hypertrophic, thick, and overactive while both splenius capitis and sternocleidomastoid muscles were ...
Tai Ngoc Tran +3 more
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