Table 4.
Case reports with a negative sharp-purser test.
| Author and Year | Age | Sex | Pathology | Imaging | Complications with use of Test | Manual Therapy Used |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Head/Neck pain/Headache | ||||||
| Jayaseelan 2016[9] | 46 | Female | Facial pain with temporomandibular disorder | None | No | Yes |
| Sillevis 2015[11] | 20 | Female | Cervicogenic Headache | Radiograph | No | Yes |
| Rodeghero 2013[47] | 18 | Female | Migraines/Cervicogenic Headache | Radiographs | No | Yes |
| Lowry 2011[26] | 37 | Female | Neck/shoulder pain secondary to whiplash | Radiographs | No | Yes |
| Mathers 2011[31] | 32 | Female | Headache, neck pain, and alar ligament laxity | Radiographs/MRI | No | Yes |
| Wong 2011[8] | 50 | Female | Neck/thoracic pain with known Eagle syndrome | MRI/CT scan/Doppler | No | Yes |
| Young 2009[24] | 64 | Female | C5-C7 degenerative disc disease | Radiographs | No | Unknown |
| van Duijn 2007[23] | 40 | Female | Cervicogenic headache | Radiograph | No | Yes |
| Glynn 2006[7] | 46 | Female | Cervical/thoracic pain | MRI | No | Yes |
| Derrick 1992[36] | 25 | Female | Headache/alar ligament laxity | Radiograph/CT scan | No | Yes |
| Cervical Radiculopathy | ||||||
| Naimi 2015[34] | 64 | Female | Radiculopathy with right C6-C7/C7-C8 foramina narrowing | Radiographs/MRI | No | Yes |
| Internal Carotid Artery Dissection | ||||||
| Willet 2011[45] | 45 | Male | Internal carotid artery dissection with neck pain and headache after water skiing accident | MRI | No | No |
MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; CT scan: computed tomography scan
Table 5 to be made available online.