Maintenance notice: Some features that submit or update information are temporarily disabled while we migrate the website. You can continue browsing normally. Thank you for your understanding.
Injuries to the spine – the vertebral bodies, their surrounding soft tissues, and the spinal cord itself – can cause devastating neurological consequences. Rapid evaluation of any patient with potential spinal trauma is crucial to rule out damage to the spinal cord and nerve roots. Even without neurological involvement, spinal injuries can be very painful and possibly disabling. In this section, the general principles of spinal trauma will be presented. A selection of more specific traumatic spinal conditions will be discussed in a separate chapter.
Full Article - https://www.orthopaedia.com/spinal-trauma-general-principles/
If you have orthopedic information that you would like to share with the Orthogate Community, please register/login and submit your news, event, job, article, case or workshop from the Submit Content menu under the My Account area. Learn more!
Improving orthopaedic care, education and research using Internet technologies