A new index for the classification of neck injured patients, the neck functional holistic analysis score

Cervical spine injuries are one of the most common diagnosed pathologies in traffic car accidents. Diagnosis is given according to patient’s symptoms and visual inspection. However, it is unknown if the diagnosis reflects also the functional impairment of the patient. The ROM data acquired with the EBI-5 from neck traffic car injured between June and July 2018 were used for this investigation. Normalized range of motion of the flexo-extension (NFE), lateral bending (NB) and rotations (NR) were used as the dependent variables and to create the Neck Functional Holistic Analysis Score (NFHAS). A total of 243 patients were included in this cohort. Traditional diagnostic methods do not seem to reflect the differences in the functional impairment of a neck injury, the NFHAS classifies the patients according to functionality.