Clinical criteria to rule out cervical spine injury

A clinical-decision rule for cervical spine injury.

Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma.

The Canadian C-Spine Rule more accurately identified cervical-spine injury in trauma than the NEXUS Low-Risk Criteria.

Charcot Spine after Remote Cervical Spine Injury

Charcot spine, also known as neuropathic spinal arthropathy and Charcot spinal arthropathy, is a rare and potentially devastating consequence of spinal cord injury. The degeneration seen in patients with Charcot spine occurs secondary to the loss of innervation to the spinal facet joints [1]. The most common cause is traumatic spinal cord injury, though syphilitic tabes dorsalis frequently seen...

Clinical presentation of patients with acute cervical spine injury.

A retrospective review of 67 patients with acute cervical spine fracture and/or dislocation was conducted at two suburban community hospital emergency departments. The mean age was 39, and two-thirds of the patients were male. Motor vehicle accidents and falls accounted for more than 80% of all injuries. On emergency department evaluation, it was found that there was no history of loss of consc...

Rugby and Cervical Spine Injury

The purpose of this presentation is to present an overview about cervical spine injuries and rugby. We focus first on global epidemiology of such injuries and on the associated injury mechanisms. Then we present the different actions developed during the last decades in order to reduce the number of injuries. In a final part, a new approach based on Finite Element Modelling is proposed to ident...