Flexion injuries - correct answer ✔✔Excessive forward motion of the spine
Chin to chest
Ex: backward fall - head is point of impact
Hyper extension injuries - correct answer ✔✔Excessive backward motion of the spine
Forward fall with chin or face as point of impact
Axial loading injury - correct answer ✔✔Vertical compression injury of the cervical or lumbar spine
Ex: diving accident, falling from great height onto butt
Dermatomes - correct answer ✔✔Sensation connected to spinal cord
Helps to determine level of injury based on sensation
,Compression injuries - correct answer ✔✔Vertebral bones shatter, compress, or burst from high velocity
below or on the top of the head or when landing forcefully on feet
Diving- cervical injury
Fall- thoracic damage
Osteoporosis
Axial rotational injury - correct answer ✔✔Two forces exerted on spinal column causing tearing of
tendons and ligaments
Twisting force, cervical & lumbar injuries
Very unstable
Laceration - correct answer ✔✔Tearing of the neural tissues
Reversible if minor damage
Permanent loss of function if spinal tracts are disrupted
Complete spinal cord injury - correct answer ✔✔Tracts in the cord are disrupted
Permanent loss of function
Total motor & sensory loss below the injury
Incomplete spinal cord injury - correct answer ✔✔Some tracts in the spinal cord remain intact
Use of cervical traction - correct answer ✔✔Reduce dislocations and realign spine and vertebral column
Types of cervical traction - correct answer ✔✔Crutch field tongs: maintain alignment/compression
injuries
Gardner-wells
Vinkle tongs
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