Do Temporomandibular Disorder Patients with Joint Pain Exhibit Forward Head Posture? A Cephalometric Study

Table 6

Correlation between the FAI score and head and cervical posture parameters in TMD patients.

Head and cervical posture parameters	Overall (N = 215)		Male (N = 67)		Female (N = 148)
		r		r		r
Ba-C3ia (mm)	0.216	0.085	0.038	0.254	0.952	0.005
C2ap-C4ip (mm)	0.423	0.055	0.045	0.246	0.872	−0.013
Cranio cervical angle (°)	0.110	−0.109	0.127	−0.188	0.343	−0.079
CVT/OPT (°)	0.647	0.031	0.645	0.057	0.711	0.031
CVT/FH (°)	0.602	0.036	0.065	0.227	0.547	−0.050
CVT/NSL (°)	0.018	0.162	0.308	0.126	0.033	0.175
CVT/RL (°)	0.002	0.208	0.042	0.250	0.010	0.212
OPT/RL (°)	0.051	0.134	0.127	0.188	0.136	0.123
NSL/C2’ (°)	0.001	0.233	0.052	0.238	0.005	0.228

Notes: Spearman correlation analysis is used. .