학술논문

Assessment of the head, cervical spine, thoracic spine and shoulder girdle postures in people with and without chronic headache.
Document Type
Article
Source
International Journal of Therapy & Rehabilitation. Mar2022, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p1-13. 13p.
Subject
*CERVICAL vertebrae
*KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
*STATISTICS
*MUSCULOSKELETAL system abnormalities
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*CHRONIC diseases
*ONE-way analysis of variance
*MIGRAINE
*CASE-control method
*HEAD
*COMPARATIVE studies
*POSTURE
*SCAPULA
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*HEADACHE
*CRANIOVERTEBRAL junction
*DATA analysis software
*DATA analysis
*THORACIC vertebrae
*SHOULDER
Language
ISSN
1741-1645
Abstract
Background/Aims: Cervical dysfunction is one of the common symptoms of chronic headaches. This study was conducted to assess the posture of the head, cervical and thoracic spine and the shoulder girdle in people with and without cervicogenic and migraine headaches. Methods: The postural angles of the head, cervical and thoracic spine and the shoulder girdle in frontal and sagittal planes, as well as thoracic spine curvature, were measured on 90 people who were split into three groups: 20 people with cervicogenic headache, 20 people with migraine and 50 people as the control group. Results: There were significant differences among the three groups in the craniovertebral angle, coronal head tilt angle and scapular upward rotation angle (P<0.05). There was no relationship between postural angles. Conclusions: The results of this study revealed that forward head posture was evident in people with cervicogenic and migraine headache. Decreased scapular upward rotation seen in the migraine headache group highlights the importance of shoulder girdle-related dysfunctions in people with chronic headaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]