Unusual Presentations of Birth Related Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

An unusual case of high cervical spinal cord injury.

Isolated spinal cord injuries can rarely be found in patients with no traumatic radiological abnormalities of the spine. Stenoses of the medullary canal and degeneration of cervical spine are the predisposing factors. A case report of a 68-year-old patient is described, who developed quadriplegia with cardiac arrest due to isolated cervical spinal cord injury while jumping on a trampoline. Comp...

Intraoperative Sonography of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury:

Intraoperative spinal sonography (lOSS) with a 7.5-MHz sector transducer was performed in 30 patients with cervical spine injury associated with neurologic deficits. A laminectomy (25 patients) or anterior carpectomy (five patients) during spinal surgery provided the lOSS imaging window. The surgery was performed for either spinal decompression or fixation as part of the initial care of these p...

Spinal cord birth injury--diagnostic difficulties.

Improvements in obstetric care have certainly led to a decrease in the incidence of birth related spinal cord trauma but unfortunately it is still encountered from time to time. Its exact incidence is difficult to determine because the spinal cord is not routinely examined in all necropsies. Yates (1959) found evidence of distortional trauma to the cervical spine in 45% of perinatal necropsies....

Bradycardia Secondary to Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Application of QFD method in toothbrush design for the cervical spinal cord injury handicapped (Tetraplegia)

Background: The spinal cord trauma is a lost physical performance that causes physical limitations in addition to mental, social and economic disadvantages. The mouth and tooth health is known as one of the related issues to the physical quality of life. Providing the conditions of the more independence for these people in brushing teeth can improve the level of mouth and tooth hygiene. The aim...