Movement control of the cervical spine declines with aging : a cross-sectional study

Lužnik, Izabela (avtor), Pajek, Maja (avtor), Majcen Rošker, Živa (avtor)

Background: Previous studies suggest that cervical spine position sense declines with age, while the relationship between aging and cervical spine movement control remains unknown. Objective: To investigate the relationship between age and cervical spine movement control in asymptomatic adults. Methods: One hundred five asymptomatic adults (21–79 years old) were included. The Butterfly test (performed with an inertial measurement unit) was used to assess movement control of the cervical spine, in which participants tracked an unpredictable moving target with active head and neck movements at three different movement path difficulty levels (3 repetitions each). The determined parameters were amplitude accuracy (AA), time on target (ToT), undershoot (U) and overshoot (O). Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and simple linear regression analysis were used to assess the relationship between age and each parameter. Results: A significant relationship was demonstrated between advancing age and the AA, ToT and U parameters for all three movement path difficulty levels (p ≤ .001), but not for the O parameter (p > .05). Advancing age explained 19.8–30.4%, 24.5–30.8% and 33.7–37.2% of the variance in the AA, ToT, and U parameters, respectively. Conclusion: The results suggest that cervical spine movement control declines with aging in an asymptomatic population. Clinicians may need to monitor potential deficits in cervicocephalic kinesthesia in older asymptomatic adults, as these impairments may have a considerable impact on their functional abilities.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: sport, movement control, aging, cervical spine, propioception
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FŠ - Fakulteta za šport
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2025
• Št. strani: Str. 1612–1619
• Številčenje: Vol. 41, no. 8
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-176669
• UDK: 796.01
• ISSN pri članku: 1532-5040
• DOI: 10.1080/09593985.2025.2454519
• COBISS.SI-ID: 224764419
• Datum objave v RUL: 08.12.2025

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Physiotherapy theory and practice
• Skrajšan naslov: Physiother. theory pract.
• Založnik: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1532-5040
• COBISS.SI-ID: 521337369

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: šport, nadzor gibanja, staranje, vratna hrbtenica, propiocepcija

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0147
• Naslov: Kineziologija monostrukturnih, polistrukturnih in konvencionalnih športov