A Newly Designed Cervical Pillow and Comparative Study
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
;
: 411-417, 1999.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-723673
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Poor head and neck support during sleep can exacerbate the neck pain. Based on the ideal sleep posture and pillow suggested by Cyriax, we designed a new cervical pillow and compared the degree of pain reduction, quality of sleep and pillow satisfaction with a low hospital pillow and a high pillow.METHOD:
The newly designed pillow has a built-in pressure-adjustable air bag in the cervical area and provides normal cervical lordotic curve in supine position and maintains cervical and thoracic vertebrae to form a horizontal line in side-lying position. Thiry-four patients with cervical pain used low hospital pillows for the first week of 3-week randomized crossover design study. They were subsequently randomly assigned to use each of the other two pillows for 1-week period. Outcomes were measured using visual analog scale, sleep questionnaire and a pillow satisfaction scale.RESULT:
Compared with the other 2 types of pillows, subjects using the newly designed pillow showed much reduced pain intensity, increased duration of sleep and sleep quality and better pillow satisfaction.CONCLUSION:
We designed a cervical pillow with built-in pressure adjustable air bag and it can significantly reduce pain intensity and improve quality of sleep in patients with cervical pain.
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Index:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Posture
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Thoracic Vertebrae
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Supine Position
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Air Bags
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Cross-Over Studies
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Neck Pain
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Visual Analog Scale
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Head
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Neck
Type of study:
Controlled clinical trial
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Year:
1999
Type:
Article
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