Table 2.

Clinical characteristics at diagnosis of cervical spine arthritis and follow-up*

Clinical characteristic	At diagnosis	At follow-up
Spontaneous pain (no. patients)	5	0
Torticollis (no. patients)	4	2
LROM** (no. patients)	13	9
ESR mm/1 hr. median (range)	25 (10–60)	10 (5–35)
Arthritis in extraspinal joints, median number of joints (range)	4 (0–40)	0 (0–35)

*After a median duration of 2.1 years (range 0.5-8 years) of cervical spine arthritis.

**All of them showed asymmetry of cervical spine movement.

Abbr.: LROM limited range of motion.