Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache
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Head and neck pain are often attributed to impaired mobility of the cervical spine. No established methods exist to examine such an impaired mobility objectively in patients with cervicogenic headache. Therefore, functional roentgenograms of the cervical spine in maximum ventral and dorsal flexion were analyzed in 15 patients with cervicogenic headache and in 18 controls. ⋯ The most evident hypomotility was found in segment C0/C1. Interesting was, furthermore, a probably compensatory hypermotility in segment C6/C7. These findings did not correlate with the results of the qualitative radiologic evaluation.