Table 2

Summary of the quality assessment of the instruments

Reliability

Agreement

Validity

Responsiveness

Interpretability


Muscle endurance of short neck flexors

(9 articles)

+

?

?

0

0

Manual muscle examination

(1 article)

?

0

0

0

0

Craniocervical flexion test

(4 articles)

-

?

0

0

0

Dynamometer

(3 articles)

?

0

0

0

0

Timed weighted overhead test

(1 article)

?

0

0

0

0

Cervical PILE test

(2 articles)

+

?

0

0

0


+ Positive

? Doubtful

- Inadequate

0 No information

de Koning et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008 9:142   doi:10.1186/1471-2474-9-142

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