The Nonoperative Treatment of Cervical Pain Evan W. Rivers Christine M. Gagnon Norman R. Harden Neck pain is associated with multiple etiologies, including injury, biomechanical factors, occupational overuse, and anatomic…
Pain Mechanisms: Relevant Anatomy, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Implications Beth A. Winkelstein Nadine Dunk James N. Weinstein This chapter describes briefly the anatomy of the cervical spine and relevant potential sources…
Cervical Orthoses and Cranioskeletal Traction Mark S. Eskander Dahari D. Brooks The earliest use of cervical orthoses comes from the fifth Egyptian dynasty (2750 to 2625 BC) (1). The biomechanical…
Biomechanics of Nonacute Cervical Spine Trauma Parmenion P. Tsitsopoulos Alexander J. Ghanayem The cervical spine is subject to injury from various pathologic conditions other than acute trauma. Degenerative changes, inflammatory…
Mechanisms of Injury in the Cervical Spine: Basic Concepts, Biomechanical Modeling, Experimental Evidence, and Clinical Applications Mark S. Eskander Jason C. Eck A thorough understanding of the cervical spine and…
Cervical Spine Kinematics and Clinical Instability Paul C. Ivancic Jiří Dvořák Vijay K. Goel Todd A. Fairchild Augustus A. White III Denis J. DiAngelo With the advent of novel methods…
Anatomy of the Cervical Spine John Louis-Ugbo Frank X. Pedlow Jr. John G. Heller The neck is the anatomic region that lies between the lower margin of the mandible and…
Functional Anatomy of Joints, Ligaments, and Disks Alpesh A. Patel William Ryan Spiker Alexander J. Ghanayem The human cervical spine has a unique anatomy adapted to allow a mobile head-torso…
Developmental Anatomy of the Normal Cervical Spine Anthony S. Lapinsky Mark S. Eskander Henry H. Sherk GENETICS The in utero development of the spine is governed by a single family…
The most common parkinsonian disorders can be assigned to one of two categories based on biochemical and structural abnormalities in two major proteins in the central nervous system—tau protein or…
