The Hoffman test determines whether a person has spinal cord damage. During this quick test, you hold out one of your arms and open your palm facedown, extending your fingers in front of you.

Mid-Sagittal MRI of the Lumbar Spine. Left (T1-weighted image); Right (T2-weighted image). On this view centered over the lumbar spine, one can see all five lumbar vertebrae in addition to the sacrum ...

Objective In this study, the prevalence of abnormalities in the cervical spine of asymptomatic professional rugby players using both static and dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in order to ...

Objective: To report a rare case of cervical cord injury caused by spinal manipulation in a Chinese patient. Method: A 46-year-old man suffered from acute tetraplegia immediately after spinal ...

Case 1: A 42-year-old man was diving in 45 meters of seawater for 30 minutes and surfaced without decompression stops. After 30 minutes, he dove again, this time at 45 meters for 30 minutes, and ...

Hiroaki Nakashima, MD, of Nagoya, Japan, said the rate of abnormal MRI findings in the cervical spinal increases greatly with age and warned of the dangers of predictive operative decisions .