After your patient-history taking and physical examination, you should be able to give answer to the following questions:
- Which grade of neck pain (I-IV) is present in this patient?
- Course: Normal or abnormal?
- Is this patient experiencing work- or trauma-related neck pain?
- Are any prognostic factors present that I can influence?
- Is the relationship between the reported limitations of daily living and participation consistent with the patient’s neck pain?
The answers to the abovementioned 5 questions enable you to categorize your patient into the following treatment profiles:
| Treatment Profile | Description |
| Profile A | Neck pain grade I or II with a normal cause |
| Profile B | Neck pain grade I or II with an abnormal cause, but no dominance of psychosocial factors |
| Profile C | Neck pain grade I or II with an abnormal cause, and dominance of psychosocial factors |
| Profile D | Neck pain grade III |
| Study | |||||
| KNGF (2016) | |||||
| Comment: This guideline is only available in Dutch at the moment. | |||||
