I'm searching for an outcome measure to use with neck pain patients. The only one I've briefly heard of is the Northwick Park neck pain questionnaire. Has anyone any experience of using this or any other that has been useful?
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I'm searching for an outcome measure to use with neck pain patients. The only one I've briefly heard of is the Northwick Park neck pain questionnaire. Has anyone any experience of using this or any other that has been useful?
There is one called the Neck Disability Index which is quite functional and comes up with a score that should indicate changes in condition with treatment. I found it, along with a lot of other questionnaires, at www.ohioproject.com/neck_num.asp
This may be one to try for some patients..
La Trobe University School of Physiotherapy Whiplash Questionnaire
Source: Pinfold et al (2004). Validity and internal consistency of a whiplash-specific disability measure. Spine 29 (3): 263-268.
Not personnaly used it.
1. Neck Disability Index
Fairbank JCT Davies JB. Pollard CA. Vernon H Mior S. Patient-completed, condition-specific functional status questionnaire, based on the Oswestry low back pain questionnaire. 10 items including pain, personal care, lifting, reading, headaches, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. Each item J Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics
2. Neck Pain Score of Jordan
Jensen MP Karoly P Braver S. Jordan A Bendix T, Jordan et al described a method for measuring neck and associated radicular pain in patients with neck disorders. The study was done in Copenhagen Denmark Jordan A Manniche C