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Butterfly Method

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The Butterfly Method is the signature assessment protocol of the NeckSmart solution. NeckSmartmeasures the patient's ability to use head-neck movements to track a moving target following anunpredictabletrajectory. The healthcare professional may thereby detect abnormalities in neckmovements, which may be the cause of chronic neck pain. The Butterfly Method is based on 15years of clinical research and is patented in Europe, North America, and Australia.

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Research:

  • Sincerity of effort versus feigned movement control of the cervical spine in asymptomatic people and patients with whiplash associateddisorders, grades I–II.Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 2015.

  • The long-term course of deficient cervical kinaesthesia following a whiplash injury has a tendency to seek a physiological homeostasis.A prospective study.Manual Therapy 2016.

  • Database of movement control in the cervical spine. Reference normal of 182 asymptomatic person.

  • Manual Therapy 2013. - Two different courses of impaired cervical kinesthesia following a whiplash injury: A one-year prospective study.Manual Therapy 2012.

  • Detecting fraudulent whiplash claims by support vector machines.Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 2010

  • “The Fly”–A new clinical assessment and treatment method for deficits of movement control in the cervical spine: reliability andvalidity.Spine 2010

  • A new clinical test for cervicocephalic kinesthetic sensibility: “The FLY”.Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2004

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