Evaluating the additive diagnostic value of DidRen LaserTest: Correlating temporal and kinematic predictors and patient-reported outcome measures in acute-subacute non-specific neck pain

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationships between altered kinematic parameters, as assessed by the DidRen laser test, and PROMs. Using a multivariate logistic regression (LR) model, we sought to identify the best predictors for discriminating ANSP patients from HCP. We hypothesized that the DidRen laser test would reveal different relationships between kinematic parameters and PROMs compared to previous studies, considering its unique head-aiming pointing task (Franov et al., 2022) executed in the real-word instead of, in previous studies, an unconstrained task (Roijezon et al., 2010) or head-aiming pointing task in virtual reality (Sarig Bahat et al., 2014, 2015; Treleaven et al., 2016); and its focus on patients in the acute-subacute phase of their condition (Sarig Bahat et al., 2014; Treleaven et al., 2016).