Experimental cervical interspinous ligament pain altered cervical joint motion during dynamic extension movement

Cervical facet capsular ligament yield defines the threshold for injury and persistent joint-mediated cervical pain

The cervical facet joint has been identified as a source of neck pain, and its capsular ligament is a likely candidate for injury during whiplash. Many studies have shown that the mechanical properties of ligaments can be altered by subfailure injury. However, the subfailure mechanical response of the facet capsular ligament has not been well defined, particularly in the context of physiology a...

Intervertebral movement analysis of the cervical spine: Prediction and categorising of cervical joint motion

Cervical zygapophysial joint pain maps.

OBJECTIVE To determine the patterns of referred pain in patients with proven cervical zygapophysial joint pain. DESIGN The pain drawings were analyzed of patients with neck pain or headache who underwent controlled, diagnostic blocks, to test whether a zygapophysial joint was the source of their pain. The distribution of pain reported by each patient who had a positive response to blocks at a...

Diagnostic cervical zygapophyseal joint blocks for chronic cervical pain.

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the prevalence of cervical zygapophyseal joint pain in a specialist clinical setting; (2) to review the number of diagnostic blocks needed to identify the segmental level of the symptomatic joints; and (3) to determine the distribution of segmental levels of cervical zygapophyseal joint pain in a clinical setting. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective audit of patients ...

Cervical interspinous bursitis in active polymyalgia rheumatica.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the inflammatory involvement of cervical interspinous bursae in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) using MRI. METHODS In all, 12 consecutive, untreated new patients with PMR were investigated. Five patients with fibromyalgia, two patients with cervical osteoarthritis and six patients with spondyloarthritis with neck pain served as controls. MRI of the cervical sp...