A short conversation (YouTube video) between Jeff Langmaid and another speaker about the "Neck Health Index" (NHI). The NHI combines three clinical tests—the joint position error test, range-of-motion test, and the butterfly test—into a single cumulative score (a "north star" number) that clinicians can calculate on initial evaluations and re-evaluations to show patient progress and to inform conversations with patients. The speakers also discuss practical use (sometimes clinicians run all three tests each visit; other times they run only one).
The neck health index compiles the joint position error test, the range of motion test, and the butterfly test cumulatively to create a north Star number, so to speak.
Exactly. Wonderful.
And that neck health index can be calculated every time I go through and run these three assessment tools on my evals and my re evals to show progress. Yeah. Wonderful. Do you recommend that? That's something that the doctors have active conversations with their patients about. Tell me how you see the neck health index fitting in with the individual tests. Yes.
For every time you do a revl, it depends if people do, you know, range of motion, butterfly and the jump positioner, or they.
Just do one of the three.
But the neck health index is a great way to explain that. Overall, while your range of motion is declining, however, your gym position or error is improving. And that's oftentimes as well as we go through treatment. Yeah, I mean, we just mobilized you. So now you have more range of motion. But that means that your, you know, motor control, fine motor control takes a dip. But that's okay because it's just part of the journey. So now we also need to work on that stabilization as well to make sure that your fine motor control is getting up to par as well, while we ensure that you keep that range of motion.
