Cross-validation of two independent methods to analyze the sequence of segmental contributions in the cervical spine in extension cineradiographic recordings
Valérie NE Schuermans, Alexander Breen, Jonathan Branney, Anouk YJM Smeets, Henk van Santbrink, Toon FM Boselie · 2025
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Valérie Schuermans and co-authors check whether two laboratories, measuring neck motion their own ways, arrive at the same story, in a 2025 study. When the neck extends, each vertebra contributes in sequence; that sequence may reveal dysfunction, but tracking it on moving X-ray films is hard. Two centres built independent tracking methods. Twelve volunteers without symptoms, young and older, bent their necks under each protocol.
One centre let people move freely; the other guided the motion. Twenty-six frames from the second half of each extension were analysed both ways. Agreement statistics, correlations, and difference plots compared the segment-by-segment sequences from the fourth to seventh neck vertebrae. Agreement ran high despite the protocol differences, the authors report. Cross-validation like this is what turns a research measurement into one clinics could trust.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Valérie NE Schuermans, Alexander Breen, Jonathan Branney, Anouk YJM Smeets, Henk van Santbrink, Toon FM Boselie |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |