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Background: For maintaining normal posture of cervical spine, deep cervical flexor muscle endurance is essentially required. Therefore, if muscle recruitment is impaired the balance between the stabilizers on the front and the back of the neck will be disrupted. This will cause loss of proper alignment of spinal segments and forward headed posture. It has been studied that Modified sphygmomanometer just like pressure biofeedback can be used as a assessment tool for measuring cervical core endurance. Kinesio -Taping (KT) has been developed as an adjunct to the treatment of musculoskeletal dysfunction and has improved over time to provide therapeutic effects which do not hinder the functionality of body segments. But, rather help in correcting or maintaining the alignment of body segments. There is lot of evidences available on immediate effect of kinesiotape but very few studies done on long term effectiveness.Materials and Method: 50 healthy asymptomatic young individuals within the age group of 18 -30 years having forward head posture were taken using random sampling. Cervical core muscle endurance was assessed by calculating activation score (mm Hg) using modified sphygmomanometer before and immediately after appllication of kinesiotape and the mean was recorded. On the 3 rd day the tape was removed and subject was reassessed for cervical muscle endurance and mean was recorded again. Repeated measure analysis was done for next 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours and 96 hours. The data recorded was used for statistical anlaysis.Results: There was significant statistical difference in the activation score pre and post application of kinesiotape using wilcoxon signed rank test (p <0.05). Thereafter, to analyse the long term effect of kinesiotape after its removal on 3 rd day (0 hours) onwards till next consecutive 4 days Bonferroni method for repeated measure analysis was used. It was found that there was no significant statistical difference between repeated measure analysis between 0-24 hours , 0-48hours, 24-48hours, 48-72hours, 72-96hours, 48-96hours (p> 0.05), but there is a significant reduction between 0-72hours (3 rd -6 th day), 0-96 hours (3 rd -7 th day), 24-96 hours (4 th -7 th day) (p <0.05).Conclusion: Thus our study to determine the immediate and long term effect of kinesiotaping on cervical core in forward head posture :one week follow up study concluded that there was no significant difference in the activation score (mm Hg) after the removal of kinesio tape post 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours but there was a significant reduction seen in activation score after 72 hours for next two consecutive days.

Introduction: Cervical spondylosis is a common degenerative condition of the spine that is on a rise. Owing to the chronic pathology of the condition, the proprioceptive and kinaesthetic receptors are affected. Appropriate and accurate response to various stimuli in the space requires timely reactions. Due to the changes in these receptors, reaction time maybe prolonged in individuals.Objectives: To determine simple reaction time in individuals with cervical spondylosis and normal. To compare the simple reaction time among the normal and cervical spondylosis subjects.Material and methods: Design-Experimental study on 50 individuals with cervical spondylosis and 50 normal subjects between the ages of 30-50yrs of age. Materials-A computer software that is the deary liewald reaction time task (Version-3.1, Reliability-0.94) to measure simple reaction time (SRT). Two practise trails and 20 real time reaction was collected in ms and used for statistical analysis.Results: There was a significant statistical difference in the mean reaction time between the normal (290.72ms) and cervical spondylosis (486.78ms) individuals using Unpaired t-test (p<0.05). Conclusion:The study concluded that there is a significant increase in the simple reaction time of cervical spondylosis individuals

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