A Newly Designed Cervical Pillow and Comparative Study
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
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: 411-417, 1999.
Artigo
em Coreano
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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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Assunto principal:
Postura
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Vértebras Torácicas
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Inquéritos e Questionários
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Decúbito Dorsal
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Air Bags
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Estudos Cross-Over
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Cervicalgia
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Escala Visual Analógica
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Cabeça
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Pescoço
Tipo de estudo:
Ensaio Clínico Controlado
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Coreano
Revista:
Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
Ano de publicação:
1999
Tipo de documento:
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