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cervical spine injury

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cervical spine injury
Orthopedics A posttraumatic injury to the cervical spine, resulting in vertebra displacement; horizontal displacement of > 3.5 mm; rotation > 11° is an absolute contraindication to future participation in contact sports–eg, football, rugby. See Burner, Cervical cord neurapraxia, Spear tackler spine.


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If the patient is not expected to be fully conscious within 48 hours, then a CT of the whole cervical spine is required to exclude any cervical spine injury.
she was unresponsive, blue in color, and not breathing Examination revealed that she had been born with a cervical spine injury.
There is no cervical spine injury criteria that has been universally adopted, even though the research community has been working on this for some time now.
 
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