ABSTRACT
Cervical muscle strength has been investigated through various approaches. This chapter reviews how various researchers have addressed the technical requirements of quantifying cervical muscle strength, the quantitative results known to date, the relevance of this research to health and disease, and the unresolved areas of this research topic. The reader will learn that most of the early research methodologies have proven unreliable, and the main focus in recent research has been measuring cervical muscle strength via surface electromyography. A discussion of research priorities is included.
