OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with cervical spine injury admitted to Rajaee hospital, Shiraz, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study includes all patients admitted with impression of cervical column injury with or without cervical cord injury from October 2009 to March 2012 to our level I trauma center in Shiraz. We recorded the patients' characterist...

Extended Abstract In the U.S, there are 150,000 high energy trauma fractures per year according to Reitman et al. (2004) and the majority of these fractures occur in the thoracolumbar junction with Roche et al. (2008) recording 43.8% of fractures occurring at the thoracolumbar junction. The change of the seat belt restraint from lap belt to three-point restraint systems has greatly reduced the ...

Ankylosing spinal disorders (ASD) tend to result in fractures and/or dislocations after minor trauma because of the altered biomechanical properties. The relative risk of traumatic vertebral fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis has been estimated as three times higher than in the general population. These spine traumas, which are located at cervical level in 81% of patients with an...

Current neck injury criteria do not include limits for lateral bending combined with axial compression and this has been observed as a clinically relevant mechanism, particularly for rollover motor vehicle crashes. The primary objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of lateral eccentricity (the perpendicular distance from the axial force to the centre of the spine) on peak loads, ...

Spinal injuries and symptoms were studied in 109 ex-military parachutists and 112 sport (free fall) parachutists by means of postal questionnaires. 46 ex-military parachutists aged 50 years or over had a radiological examination of the lumbar spine and 58 sport parachutists had a radiological examination of the cervical spine as part of the survey. A history of back pain was significantly (P<0....

BACKGROUND Severe and moderate head injury can cause misdiagnosis of a spinal cord injury, leading to devastating long-term consequences. The objective of this study is to identify risk factors involving spine trauma and moderate-to-severe brain injury. METHODS A prospective study involving 1617 patients admitted in the emergency unit was carried out. Of these patients, 180 with moderate or s...

The C1-2 complex allows far more motion than any other single level in the cervical spine. This motion is predominantly rotational, since translational motion at C1C2 is limited by the strong transverse ligament. This restriction is lost after fracture of the odontoid and may be associated with anteroor retrolisthesis of the C1-C2 complex in relation to the C2 body. This may result in spinal co...

BACKGROUND Complications of nonunited Type II odontoid fractures can range from neck pain to progressive neurological deficit from cervical myelopathy. Rarely, the hypertrophic nonunion requires both anterior transoral decompression and posterior decompression with instrumented fusion. We present a case and review literature around this entity. CASE DESCRIPTION A 68-year-old female presented ...

Objectives: This study is designed to statistically analyze the features of patients who visited Department Acupuncture and Moxibustion at OO Korean Medicine Hospital for 3 years.Methods: retrospectively analyzed medical records using IBM SPSS ver. 27.0 Windows.Results: 1. In analysis total number patients, those in their 30s accounted highest percentage, male had a higher rate. 2. KCD-8 code, ...