NeckCare

01/10/2026

By "The musculoskeletal plant itself at the bottom, the spinal cord in the middle, and the brain at the top. Researchers tend to confine themselves."

01/08/2026

Scrolling on social media, I stumbled upon something intriguing: the butterfly test. It reveals the functional capacity of the upper cervical spine. I was immediately captivated by this approach.

12/31/2025

25,000 patients.
500 clinicians.
One goal: better outcomes through objective measurement.

Every cervical spine assessment represents a patient who needed answers and a clinician committed to providing them.

To the clinicians using NeckCare—thank you for trusting us to be part of how you care for your patients.

Here's to 2026 🎆

12/10/2025

“Our objective evidence sucks”

12/09/2025

According to Dr. Julia Treleaven, any person who’s got a neck pain condition who’s complaining of dizziness is more likely to have more deficits — and this has been seen across most of her studies.

She explains that this is also showing up in neck pain associated with hypermobility disorders. The evidence for the incidence of hypermobility disorders in the population ranges anywhere from 6% to 30%, and it’s still quite high. You probably find that you do tend to see these people in your clinic, particularly if they’ve had very minor trauma.

They might have been functioning quite well, and then they just have a minor trauma and that pushes them over the edge. And that is something we need to consider.

12/08/2025

12/03/2025

The Importance of Neck Afferents by Dr. Julia Treleaven

1. Neck afferents are important, as all afferents are in the body, for providing movement acuity, joint stability, coordination, muscle stiffness, and providing that sort of feedforward and feedback response in response to movement.
2. They’re also really important for sensorimotor control — knowing where your head is in relation to your body, being able to control postural stability and dynamic balance, oculomotor control, coordination of the trunk and the head and the eyes and the head.
3. They can also substitute for vestibular or visual problems. It can up-regulate to provide more information so that people who’ve got a vestibular decline or a visual decline, they can up-regulate and it can compensate.
4. Relevance for function is it’s getting our eyes and our ears where it needs to be. Our neck is really designed to get our head where we need to be for our eyes and our ear.

12/03/2025

9 Reasons to Use the Butterfly Test® in Your Clinical Practice

1. Relevant for most neural and musculoskeletal conditions of the neck
2. Sophisticated, user-friendly technology for effortless assessment
3. Provides objective evaluation of movement sense
4. Ensures consistent, high-quality, standardized assessments
5. Identifies cervical sensorimotor impairments for targeted treatment
6. Supports quicker recoveries and better outcomes with targeted sensory-motor retraining
7. Establishes a baseline and detects deviations early for timely intervention
8. Suitable even in early rehabilitation due to limited ROM needed
9. Helps screen athletes for sensory-motor impairments to reduce injury risk, especially since impaired cervical proprioception (like joint position sense) increases concussion, neck, and musculoskeletal injury risk

11/24/2025

"Our therapists are using the data provided by NeckCare™ to develop more individualized plans of care for their patients with neck pain. Patients love that the NeckCare assessments provide them with unique data and visual figures to help them understand their performance."

Marlon Wong, PT, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

11/21/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

11/20/2025

Looking for a NeckCare-trusted provider? When you see this badge, you’re in the right place. ✔️

Use our Provider Directory to find a NeckCare provider near you:
👉 www.neckcare.com/provider-directory

Can’t find someone in your area?
Let your clinician know they can become a NeckCare provider and start offering better care to their patients.

11/19/2025

of on athlete buy-in!