Sentences with phrase «neck injuries usually»

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When Rylea Taylor pulled her son Jaxon from the wreckage of their family car on September 15, she knew instantly that his neck was broken — an injury that usually leaves victims paralyzed or dead.

Front and side crashes usually are more serious, but rear impacts are more common and the neck injuries that result can be debilitating.

MRI results will usually determine if this is a soft tissue case (neck sprain / strain), or if she sustained a more serious injury such as a herniated disc or a protruding disc in her cervical spine.

Whiplash is perhaps one of the more familiar neck injuries and is usually associated with a sudden impact or sudden stop related to a car accident.

In the neck area, the result is usually quadriplegia, also called tetraplegia, which is paralysis of the entire body, including all four limbs — everything below an injury in the cervical spine.

Aside from the symptoms complained of, the severity of neck and back injuries usually need imaging studies ranging from X-Rays, to CT Scans, to MRI's in order to be accurately diagnosed and treated.

When people think about injuries resulting from the whiplash forces of car accident, they usually focus on injuries to the neck, shoulders and upper back area.

Spinal cord, back and neck injuries are usually categorized by the degree of pain, the location of that pain, and whether there are any other symptoms present.

Most car accident spinal cord injuries are caused by trauma to the vertebrae, usually from a sudden impact to the neck or back compressing the spine.

Quadriplegia (losing the use of limbs / extremities below the neck) is usually a result of a traumatic injury to the spinal cord or spinal cord nervous tissue.

This injury is usually a less serious injury than a femoral neck fracture.

The vast majority of spinal cord injuries occur in one of two regions: the cervical region (the top seven vertebrae in the neck) or the lumbar region (the five largest vertebrae in the lower back) And are typically the result of some sort of sudden trauma, usually the effect of impact during an auto accident, the sudden trauma of a slip and fall or deliberate blunt force trauma applied directly to the spine.

While neck injuries such as whiplash or usually temporary, they can cost you a large sum of money while you recover and inflict substantial pain and suffering.