Cervical flexion-extension, side bending, and rotations were tested in two sessions, first by the CROM and VF and in the second only with the VF. Thirty-eight healthy and 20 symptomatic participants were evaluated. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine the validity and reliability of Veloflex (VF) to measure the CROM by comparison with the cervical range of motion (CROM) device, and to examine their test-retest reliability. Clinicians use various methods to evaluate cervical range of motion (CROM) that some of them have also been proposed to give instant feedback. Neck pain has a high annual incidence and decreases the cervical active range of motion (ROM).
Validity and reliability of Veloflex to measure active cervical range of motion in asymptomatic and symptomatic subjects. Cite this article Cánovas-Ambit G, García-Vidal JA, Martín-San Agustín R, Dalla-Vecchia AA, Sánchez-Barbadora M, Medina-Mirapeix F. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. Licence This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. 3 Department of Electromagnetism and Electronics, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain DOI 10.7717/peerj.11228 Published Accepted Received Academic Editor Justin Keogh Subject Areas Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Anatomy and Physiology, Drugs and Devices, Kinesiology, Orthopedics Keywords Cervical, Range of motion, Validity/reliability, Optoelectronic device Copyright © 2021 Cánovas-Ambit et al.