Total motion generated in the unstable cervical spine during management of the typical trauma patient: A comparison of methods in a cadaver model

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 937-942

  Prasarn, Mark L ^a   Horodyski, Marybeth ^b   Dubose, Dewayne ^b   Small, John ^c   Del Rossi, Gianluca ^c   Zhou, Haitao ^d   Conrad, Bryan P ^b   Rechtine, Glenn R ^a  

^a STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical spine; fracture; immobilization; injury; log roll; motion; transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INSTABILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEVICES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OPERATING TABLE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE MOBILITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MOTION; MOVING AND LIFTING PATIENTS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRONE POSITION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84861072271     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31823765af     Document Type: Article

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