Return to play after cervical spine injury in sports

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-17

  Cantu, Robert C ^a   Li, Yan Michael ^b   Abdulhamid, Mohamed ^b   Chin, Lawrence S ^b  

^a EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HALO BRACE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LIGAMENT INJURY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLAY; QUADRIPLEGIA; RANGE OF MOTION; RETURN TO PLAY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPEAR TACKLER SPINE; SPINE DISEASE; SPORT INJURY; SPRAIN; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877911771     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31827dc1fb     Document Type: Article

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