| With the increasing pressure of work and life in people, cervical spine disorder has gradually become the common and long troubled subjective discomfort. Since cervical range of motion （CROM） changes in most cervical disease, it has been gradually applied in screening of patients with cervical diseases, diagnosis and identification, determining the extent of cervical function disorder, evaluation of therapeutic effect and prognosis evaluation. Current research on the measurement of CROM includes normal cervical spine mobility measurement, development and application of new methods and tools for measuring CROM, the influence factors of cervical spine mobility and clinical application for CROM. The complex anatomical structure and coupling movements cause great difficulties for measuring CROM. This article aims to review the research status and progress for the measurement of CROM. |
