A Comparison of Clinical Outcomes between Early Cervical Spine Stabilizer Training and Usual Care in Individuals following Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion

Table 1

Characteristics of the participants in the usual care (UC) group and the early cervical spine stabilizer (ECS) training group prior to surgery.

	UC ()	ECS training ()	value
Age (years)			0.582
Gender (female/male)	9/10	14/6	0.200
Neurological exam (number)
Unilateral radicular pain	11	10	0.621
Bilateral radicular pain	3	6	0.451
Motor deficit	11	12	0.894
Sensory deficit	9	8	0.68
+Upper limb tension test	15	14
Cervical spine task force
Classification category III/IV	14/5	10/10	0.129
Number of levels fused	8/11	10/10	0.621
(One/two)

for independent -test or chi-squared test. Surgeries were all ACDF confirmed during the study by operative report and postsurgical radiographs.