For patients with chronic neck pain, key impairments we will likely find are weakness and a lack of coordination and endurance in the Deep Neck Flexor Muscles.
In fact, people with chronic neck pain have significantly poorer performance when compared to people without neck pain on the craniocervical flexion test.
In addition to strength and endurance issues, people with chronic neck pain also have altered proprioception, balance disturbances, altered eye movement control, and altered postural activity of cervical muscles.
Here's a post all about Chronic Neck Pain for your patients with Movement Coordination Impairments - that educates about the importance of improving strength, endurance, and coordination of the Deep Neck Flexors + Exercise Videos...