The role of digital headband in neck proprioceptive measurement
Subject Areas : Sports Injuries and Corrective TrainingRamin Biranvand 1 , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini 2 , Rahim Mirnasuri 3 , Mohammad Hossein Abdipour Monfared 4
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Sports Rehabilitation, Faculty of Sports Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Sports Science Department, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
4 - B.A., Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical and Vocational University, Khorramabad, Iran
Keywords: Neck depth sense, Digital headband, Measurement error,
Abstract :
Several methods have been used to assess the accuracy of cervical proprioceptive inputs. Previous studies have shown that the results of these methods may affect by measurement errors. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the digital headband in reducing cervical proprioceptive measurement error. For this purpose, 40 male volunteers from Khorramabad were selected as subjects based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, and their cervical repositioning errors were evaluated by using Digital Headband. Based on this, after reaching the target angle, the subjects used a remote control to record the repositioned angle, while the examiner was recording the angle displayed on the headband. Finally, the dependent t-test was used to compare the results of two mentioned methods (P≤0.05). The results showed there was some difference between obtained data from two evaluation methods, however, the results of dependent t-test showed that this difference was not significant (P<0.05). Based on the results, it seems that the use of digital headband device, despite reducing the possibility of measurement errors, does not cause a significant difference in the results.
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