Complications corner: Quadriplegia after a minor hyperextension injury with severe OPLL teaching case and illustrative images
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A thirty-seven year old man, taking part in a Rugby Club's regular training session was performing an exercise in which two people stand back to back with arms interlocked and then alternately lift each other off the ground by bending forward (Figs. 1 and 2). During this exercise the pair overbalanced and the patient slipped over his partner's back and fell onto his head (Fig. 3). The interlock...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surgical Neurology International
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2152-7806
DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.139670