The Influence of Subclinical Neck Pain on Neurophysiological and Behavioral Measures of Multisensory Integration This study presents novel ERP results showing evidence of multisensory differences in an SCNP population. There is limited knowledge on the long-term influence of neck pain on the multisensory system. This study supports previous findings, exemplifying slower RT in those who present with SCNP. This work is the first to use EEG to measure MSI in the SCNP population, and its methods and results may serve as a foundation for future work. A more complex task as used by Farid et al. [28] could be implemented in subsequent research in combination with EEG. Understanding the influence of chronic changes in neck inputon MSI is important neck pain becomes more prevalent due to interactions with technology. Although this study shows that MSI differences may occur as a result of chronic changes in neck sensory input, the mechanism responsible for this is not completely understood and needs further investigation.
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