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Cette étude porte sur les capacités d'attention chez des patients victimes d'un accident avec “coup du lapin”, avant et après immobilisation thérapeutique du rachis cervical. Sous immobilisation thérapeutique, les patients ont montré une importante amélioration des troubles subjectifs et une restauration de leurs capacités d'attention. Comme en témoignent les résultats obtenus avec le groupe témoin, l'amélioration constatée ne s'explique pas par un effet d'entraînement dû à la répétition des examens. La discussion porte sur l'implication possible, au plan neurophysiologique du système à nor-épinéphrine.
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The study focused on attentional processes in patients who had suffered common whiplash injury and who were investigated before and with immobilisation of the cervical spine. Patients demonstrated considerable subjective relief and marked improvement in complex attentional processing with the immobilisation. This improvement cannot be explained by the practice effect as shown by the results in a control group. The norepinephrine system is discussed as a possible neurophysiological basis for the observed effects.
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Radanov, B.P., Dvořák, J. & DiStefano, G. Attentional processing in common whiplash syndrome before and with immobilisation of the cervical spine. Eur Spine J 2, 72–75 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00302706
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