The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between joint position sense and static and dynamic balance in female patients with chronic neck pain compared with healthy controls. The study sample comprised 25 female patients with chronic neck pain and 25 healthy (asymptomatic) female controls. Pain severity with the visual analog scale, joint position sense with the laser pointer method, static balance with the Single-Leg Balance Test, and dynamic balance with the Y Balance Test were assessed. The deviation in cervical joint position sense was greater in extension (P < .001), right rotation (P < .001), and left lateral rotation (P < .05) in the patients with chronic neck pain compared with the healthy controls. The results of the patients with chronic neck pain were worse than the healthy controls in the Single-Leg Balance Test with both eyes open (P < .05) and eyes closed (P < .05). The patients with chronic neck pain had worse dynamic balance only in the anterior direction reach of the left leg (P < .05). Cervical joint position sense and static balance were worse in female patients with chronic idiopathic neck pain when compared with asymptomatic controls. Dynamic balance in all other directions except for the anterior direction was not negatively affected in individuals with chronic idiopathic neck pain.

Cultural adaptation to Henry Ford Hospital Headache Disability Inventory (HDI) and investigating the validity and reliability of this inventory.International standards were followed in conducting t...

Body awareness and chronic low back pain: validity and reliability study of Turkish version of Body Awareness Rating Scale Background/aim: Previous studies reported that patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) had trouble describing senses or body functions. A questionnaire, the Body Awareness Rating Questionnaire (BARQ), was recently developed for assessing body awareness. The aim of the study was to develop a Turkish version of the BARQ and investigate the validity and reliability in patients with CLBP. BARQ translated to Turkish with forward-backward method. Ninety-nine patients with CLBP and 101 healthy controls (HC) completed the BARQ-T. Fifty-one of patients with CLBP and HC repeated BARQ-T three days later. In addition to BARQ-T, Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), pain severity, Short Form 36 (SF-36) and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) were administered. The current study found good-excellent Cronbach's alpha values for patients with CLBP (?: between 0.883-0.967) and acceptable-good Cronbach's alpha values for HC (?: between 0.649-0.825) in factors of BARQ-T. ICC values for test-retest validity were found to be good-excellent for patients with CLBP in all factors. BARQ-T was positively correlated with SF-36 and negatively correlated with ODI and TAS (p<0.05). The study confirmed that the BARQ-T has acceptable validation and reliability in terms of pain perception and pain assessment in the Turkish CLBP community.

Background/aim: The multidimensional evaluation of patients with chronic neck pain is important for planning the treatment program. The aim of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire (NBQ). Materials and methods: The internal construct validity of the NBQ was examined by the fit of the data to the Rasch measurement model. External validity of the NBQ was evaluated by testing for expected associations of Rasch transformed NBQ score with the corresponding variables through the process of convergent validity. The reliability of the NBQ in terms of both internal consistency and test-retest reliability was assessed by the person separation index (PSI) and differential item functioning (DIF) by time effect. Results: It was determined that the questionnaire has 2 factors. None of the items of Factor 1(F1) and Factor 2 (F2) showed DIE The reliability of F1 (Cronbach's alpha = 0.89, PSI = 0.87) and F2 (Cronbach's alpha = 0.77, PSI = 0.87) was good with Cronbach's alpha and PSI. there was a good correlation between NBQ/E1 and the Neck Disability Index (NDI) (r = 0.673) and Neck Pain and Disability Scale (NPDS) (r = 0.709). Also, there was a correlation between NBQ/E2 and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (r = 0.552) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) (r = 0.410). Conclusion: The Turkish version of the Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire is valid and reliable.