CONTEXT Benign neck pain is common in athletes and is usually the result of minor sprains, strains, or contusions. Athletes with neck pain may have deficits in cervical and/or upper thoracic mobility, muscle recruitment, strength and endurance, repositioning acuity, postural stability, and oculomotor control. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A Medline search was performed via PubMed to locate articles of...

Occipital condyle fractures (OCF) had been difficult to diagnose, but the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) as a diagnostic tool in patients with significant cranio-cervical injury has led to increased recognition of this injury. The incidence of OCF in severely injured blunt trauma patients is estimated at 0.1 4.4% and as high as 16% overall when less severely injured patients are inc...

The axis is an important element of the musculoskeletal complex in the upper cervical spine. It is surrounded by a number of delicate neurological and vascular structures and controls a wide range of movements. Thus, a pathological C2 fracture is a threatening condition. Multiple myeloma and osteolytic metastases are the most frequent malignant lesions affecting the spine. However, the cervical...

Skeletal abnormalities of cervical region or in craniocervical region are of interest to the anatomists, orthopaedicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons and even orthodontists. These abnormalities may result in severe neck pain, decreased neck mobility, muscular weakness and sensory deficits of both upper limbs and sudden unexpected death. During the routine osteology teaching, it was observed tha...

We aimed to determine the association of cervical range motion (ROM) with clinical features headache and neck pain psychosocial factors in patients migraine. Seventy women diagnosed migraine were questioned regarding onset frequency, presence, intensity self-reported pain. These individuals also completed following questionnaires: Neck Disability Index, Migraine Assessment, Patient Health Quest...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to analyze the impact of neck pain, mobility, and body mass index on teachers’ postural control. Methods: a cross-sectional study with 54 state public school teachers, 68.5% (n = 37) being females, mean age 46.5 ± 9.3 years. Data were collected following instruments: Craniocervical Dysfunction Index (Brazilian version), force platform in bipedal semi-tandem stance, visual anal...

Tropism, or asymmetry, of facet joints in the cervical spine has been found to be related degenerative changes and discs. Clinicians often assume that differences segmental mobility are tropism. The aims this study were determine relationship between asymmetry sub-axial (1) (2) spinal levels perceived by therapists have limited mobility. Eighteen participants with idiopathic neck pain had MRIs ...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Many surgical techniques are used for the treatment of cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy due to spondylosis or disc herniation. The aim of this article is to evaluate and to compare the long term outcomes of 1. anterior cervical discectomy (ACD), 2. anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF) and 3. anterior cervical discectomy with total disc replacement (TDR) in ord...

It has been reported that miRNAs is deregulated in diverse human cancers, involving human cervical cancer. However, the clinical significances and potential mechanisms of miR-142 in the development and progression of cervical cancer were not elucidated completely till now. In this study, we found that the expression of miR- 142 was obviously down-regulated in human cervical cancer tissues and a...