Balance alterations are associated with neck pain and neck muscle endurance in migraine.

Background: Migraine patients may present with both cervical and balance dysfunctions. The neck plays an important role in balance by providing substantial proprioceptive input, which is integrated in the central nervous system and influences the balance control systems. Whether balance and neck dysfunctions are associated in patients with migraine is still to be explored.

White Matter Lesions Identified by Magnetic Resonance in Women with Migraine: A Volumetric Analysis and Clinical Correlations.

Background: Repeated migraine attacks and aura could independently cause structural changes in the central nervous system. Our research aims to study the correlation of migraine type, attack frequency, and other clinical variables with the presence, volume and localization of white matter lesions (WML), in a controlled study.

Methods: Sixty volunteers from a tertiary headache center were selected and divided equally into four groups: episodic migraine without aura (MoA), episodic migraine with aura (MA), chronic migraine (CM) and controls (CG).

Migraine and balance impairment: Influence of subdiagnosis, otoneurological function, falls, and psychosocial factors.

Objective: To assess the balance sensory organization among patients with migraine, considering the influence of migraine subdiagnosis, otoneurological function, falls, and psychosocial factors.

Background: Migraine has been associated with vestibular symptoms and balance dysfunction; however, neither comprehensive balance assessment nor associated factors for greater impairment have been addressed thus far.

Methods: Patients from a tertiary headache clinic with a diagnosis of episodic migraine with aura (MWA), without aura (MWoA), and chronic migraine (CM) were included for this cross-sectional study (30 patients per group).

Migraine With Aura Is Related to Delayed Motor Control Reaction and Imbalance Following External Perturbations.

It is evidenced that migraineurs present balance deficits. However, the balance recovery following unexpected ground perturbations, which reflect conditions of everyday activities, has not been investigated in this population. We aimed to assess the reactive postural responses among patients with migraine with and without aura, chronic migraine, and controls.

Is kinesiophobia related to fear of falling, dizziness disability, and migraine disability in patients with migraine?

Introduction: Kinesiophobia is a common symptom associated with high disability, and has been observed in patients with migraine. However, the association between kinesiophobia and clinical factors in this population is unknown.

Objective: To assess the fear of falling, dizziness disability, and migraine disability in patients with migraine, considering the presence of kinesiophobia.

Neck Active Movements Assessment in Women with Episodic and Chronic Migraine.

We aimed to compare movement parameters and muscle activity during active cervical spine movements between women with episodic or chronic migraine and asymptomatic control. We also assessed the correlations between cervical movement measures with neck-related disability and kinesiophobia. Women with episodic ( = 27; EM) or chronic ( = 27; CM) migraine and headache-free controls ( = 27; CG) performed active cervical movements.

Comparison of cervical muscle isometric force between migraine subgroups or migraine-associated neck pain: a controlled study.

This study aimed to verify if migraine frequency or migraine-associated neck pain were associated with a reduction of normalized force and altered electromyographic activity during maximal cervical muscle isometric contractions. Additionally, it aimed to assess the correlation of normalized isometric force with years with migraine, headache frequency, headache intensity, migraine-related disability, and severity of cutaneous allodynia. The sample comprises 71 women with migraine (40/31 episodic/chronic, 42/18 with/without neck pain) and 32 women without headache.

Muscle endurance and cervical electromyographic activity during submaximal efforts in women with and without migraine.

Background: Despite previous reports supporting cervical muscle weakness and altered motor control in migraine, the endurance under standardized submaximal loads has not been investigated. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the endurance and muscle activity of the cervical musculature during submaximal isometric contractions in women with migraine and those without headache.

Methods: Cervical muscle endurance tests were performed for flexors and extensors at 25%, 50%, and 75% of the output force during maximal isometric contraction using the Multi-Cervical Rehabilitation Unit with customized biofeedback.

The presence of aura is not related to changes in the cervical performance and mobility of patients with migraine.

Background: Migraine may be associated with neck impairment and migraine chronicity is related to greater disability. However, whether other subclassifications of migraine, such as migraine with aura, are related to neck impairment is currently unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the musculoskeletal aspects of the neck in patients with migraine with and without aura.

The Influence of Photophobia on Postural Control in Patients With Migraine.

Background: People with migraine exhibit postural control impairments. These patients also have an increased light sensitivity due to the disease, and it remains during the headache-free period. It is currently unknown if increased lighting levels can alter the balance control, especially in individuals with visual hypersensitivity, such as migraineurs.

Subdiagnosis, but not presence of vestibular symptoms, predicts balance impairment in migraine patients - a cross sectional study.

Background: Vestibular symptoms and balance changes are common in patients with migraine, especially in the ones with aura and chronic migraine. However, it is not known if the balance changes are determined by the presence of vestibular symptoms or migraine subdiagnosis. Therefore, the aim of this study was to verify if the migraine subdiagnosis and/or the presence of vestibular symptoms can predict balance dysfunction in migraineurs.

Is the presence of neck pain associated with more severe clinical presentation in patients with migraine? A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To investigate the association between the presence of self-reported neck pain in patients with migraine and clinical features, upper cervical mobility, and neck muscle performance.

Methods: A total of 142 patients with migraine were recruited and stratified by the presence (n = 99) or absence of self-reported neck pain (n = 43). The clinical examination included the Migraine Disability Assessment, the 12-item Allodynia Symptom Checklist, a flexion rotation test, and the Craniocervical Flexion Test.

Postural Control Complexity and Fatigue in Minimally Affected Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.

This study investigated changes in postural control complexity in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) before and after a fatigue protocol. Thirteen minimally affected PwMS (1.53 ± 1.

Kinesiophobia Is Associated with Migraine.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess kinesiophobia in patients with migraine and to determine its association and correlation with cutaneous allodynia and clinical manifestations of migraine.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Setting: A headache clinic of a university-based hospital.

Presence of vestibular symptoms and related disability in migraine with and without aura and chronic migraine.

Objective: To assess the presence and handicap due to vestibular symptoms in three subgroups of patients with migraine and controls.

Methods: Women between 18-55 years old were diagnosed by headache specialists and stratified as migraine with aura (n = 60), migraine without aura (n = 60), chronic migraine (n = 60) and controls (n = 60). Information regarding demographics, headache and vestibular symptoms were collected in this cross-sectional study.

Functional Balance Deterioration on Daily Activities in Patients With Migraine: A Controlled Study.

Objective: This study aimed to assess functional activities in different subgroups of patients with migraine.

Design: One-hundred forty subjects were uniformly divided into the following four groups: headache-free controls, migraine with aura, without aura, and chronic migraine. Subjects performed the tests walk across, tandem walk, sit to stand, and step up and over at the Balance Master system (Neurocom).

Balance Impairments in Different Subgroups of Patients With Migraine.

Background: Patients with migraine often experience balance impairments. However, the relationship between clinical features - like aura and chronicity - and the severity of balance impairments is not well established. The objective of this study was to assess balance impairments in different subgroups of migraine patients.

Cervico-occipital Posture in Women With Migraine: A Case-Control Study.

Study Design: Case-control study.

Background: Previous studies have assessed forward head posture in patients with migraine using photographs. To date, no study has compared postural differences using both radiographs and photographs.

Flexion-relaxation ratio in computer workers with and without chronic neck pain.

This study evaluated the flexion-relaxation phenomenon (FRP) and flexion-relaxation ratios (FR-ratios) using surface electromyography (sEMG) of the cervical extensor muscles of computer workers with and without chronic neck pain, as well as of healthy subjects who were not computer users. This study comprised 60 subjects 20-45years of age, of which 20 were computer workers with chronic neck pain (CPG), 20 were computer workers without neck pain (NPG), and 20 were control individuals who do not use computers for work and use them less than 4h/day for other purposes (CG). FRP and FR-ratios were analyzed using sEMG of the cervical extensors.

The Brazilian Portuguese version of the revised Maastricht Upper Extremity Questionnaire (MUEQ-Br revised): translation, cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and structural validation.

Background: Complaints of the arm, neck, and shoulders (CANS) have a multifactorial etiology, and, therefore, their assessment should consider both work-related ergonomic and psychosocial aspects. The Maastricht Upper Extremity Questionnaire (MUEQ) is one of a few specific tools available to evaluate the nature and occurrence of CANS in computer-office workers and the impact of psychosocial and ergonomic aspects on work conditions. The purpose of the present study was to perform a translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the MUEQ to Brazilian Portuguese and verify the reliability, internal consistency, and structural validity of the MUEQ in Brazilian computer-office workers.

Static body postural misalignment in individuals with temporomandibular disorders: a systematic review.

Background: The association between body postural changes and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) has been widely discussed in the literature, however, there is little evidence to support this association.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to conduct a systematic review to assess the evidence concerning the association between static body postural misalignment and TMD.

Method: A search was conducted in the PubMed/Medline, Embase, Lilacs, Scielo, Cochrane, and Scopus databases including studies published in English between 1950 and March 2012.

Influence of migraine and of migraine aura on balance and mobility--a controlled study.

Background: Migraine, especially migraine with aura (MA), appears to be a risk factor for ischemic lesions in the posterior fossa. The clinical relevance of the lesions is uncertain. Accordingly, herein, we identified individuals with MA, migraine without aura (MO), and without migraine (controls) in order to investigate their balance and mobility.