bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a rare and preventable complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. herein, we report a fatal case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (acd/f). a 65-year-old man with cervical spine trauma and anterior cord syndrome, following car overturn presented to our emergency department. the patient had c6-t10 prola...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to disentangle the effects of obesity and mobility limitation on cervical and breast cancer screening among community dwelling women. METHODS The data source was the French national Health and Disability Survey - Household Section, 2008. The Body Mass Index (BMI) was used to categorize obesity status. We constructed a continuous score of mobility limitations to assess the ...

19-08 RESEARCH REPORT POSTER DISPLAY Number: 19-08 Physiotherapy 2007;93(S1):S420 Tuesday 5 June 10:30 VCEC Exhibit Hall B & C THE EFFECTS OF ALTERING INTERVERTEBRAL STIFFNESS ON PASSIVE MOVEMENT TESTING OF THE CERVICAL SPINE: A COMPUTER-BASED SIMULATION. Tuttle N, Laakso L, Barrett R; School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Scicnce, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia PURPOSE: To determine...

OBJECTIVE To define the kinematic motion patterns of the canine cervical spine, with a particular emphasis on identifying differences between the cranial (C(2)-C(4)) and caudal (C(5)-C(7)) segments, and to determine the significance of coupled motions (CM) in the canine cervical spine. STUDY DESIGN Cadaveric biomechanical study. SAMPLE POPULATION Cervical spines of 8 Foxhounds. METHODS Sp...

Introduction . Abnormal motion on flexion-extension radiographs is often used to indicate instability in the cervical spine. This method is also used to evaluate healing after fusions. Correct interpretation of these radiographs is important, because an unhealed fusion is potentially unstable and eventually a source of pain. The true measuring errors by using conventional radiography to examine...

The atlanto-axial instability is an increase of mobility of C2 respected to C1, it is more frequent in Down’s syndrome patients than in general population [2]. This association was first reported in 1961 [3] almost 100 years after Down syndrome was described. Although several cases of Atlanto-Axial Instability (AAI) were reported, only in 1983 through Paralympics games for Down syndrome players...