BACKGROUND CONTEXT Somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) monitor global spinal cord function, and the interpretation of motor loss is based on inferred rather than direct measurements. Therefore, SSEPs may not be useful for identifying motor function deficits caused by anterior spinal column injury or nerve root injury during decompression or placement of instrumentation. For these reasons, a...

Fear of failure to identify cervical spine injury has led to extremely liberal use of radiography in patients with blunt trauma and remotely possible neck injury. A number of previous retrospective and small prospective studies have tried to address the question of whether any clinical criteria can identify patients, from among this group, at sufficiently low risk that cervical spine radiograph...

The developing understanding of the morphology of the cervical spine has revealed the complexity of the system. A review of selected literature reported that a number of the joints have an unusual nature and exhibit complicated and even paradoxical motions. For the practicing therapist, the significance of these observations is that assessment and treatment procedures of the cervical spine must...

OBJECTIVES Some trauma patients have an undiagnosed cervical spine injury but require immediate airway control. This paper reports an emergency department's (ED) experience with these patients. In particular, is there a worse neurological outcome? METHODS A retrospective study over 6.5 years, based on prospectively collected data from the Royal Perth Hospital trauma registry. Patients with a ...

The cervical spine is a common site of injury in the vertebral column, with severe injuries often associated damage to spinal cord. Several studies have been performed better understand mechanisms such situations and develop ways treat or even prevent them. Among most advantageous widely used methods are computational models, as they offer unique features providing information on strains stress...

Prompt and accurate diagnosis of cervical spine injury is important to prevent the catastrophic results that can be caused by undetected lesions. Delayed or missed diagnosis of cervical spine injury occurs with an incidence of 5 to 20% according to previous studies. In this study, we report four cases of cervical instability without initial radiologic evidence. These cases demonstrate that dyna...

To establish an incidence of cervical spine injuries in significant blunt head trauma and to evaluate the necessity of using cervical radiography, all consecutive cases of blunt head trauma admitted to the trauma service over a 7-month period were reviewed. Two hundred twenty-eight charts were reviewed for demographic information, circumstance of injury, complaints and physical findings referab...

OBJECTIVE A full understanding of an injury event and the mechanical forces involved should be important for predicting specific anatomical patterns of injury. Yet, information on the mechanism of injury is often overlooked as a predictor for specific anatomical injury in clinical decision-making. We measured the relationship between mechanism of injury and risk for cervical spine fracture. M...

BACKGROUND Injury to the spine and spinal cord is one of the common cause of disability and death. Several factors affect the outcome; but which are these factors (alone and in combination), are determining the outcomes are still unknown. The aim of the study was to evaluate the factors influencing the outcome following acute cervical spine injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective observat...

Cervical cancer is a treatable and preventable cancer that remains a concern for women worldwide. Efforts to reduce rates of cervical cancer focus on the promotion of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and the promotion of routine recommended cervical cancer screening, primarily done by cervical cytology and cervical HPV testing. Recently researchers have begun to examine urine-based HPV te...