Cervical Spine Injury: A Case Study

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Hi Ahemd! Your discussion post is really informative, thank you for sharing such a great information. I agree on your statement that most common injury level of cervical spine are C6-C7. Cervical spine injury is the most frequent injury in all spinal cord injury, shown 55% of all spinal cord injury (Torretti and Sengupta, 2007). The most widely recognized missed fracture in the spine are at C1-C2 and C6-C7, the reason being deficient radiological examination as the body structure systems isn't all around envisioned at the cranio-vertebral and cevico-thoracic intersection on regular plain film or X-ray (McKinnis, 2014). From the McKinnis (2014), case study 1, physical therapist(PTs) noted "cervical spine instability, positive" and refer patient

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