Why use a two poster brace?
A two poster brace is a brace that supports the neck both front and back. This is the most rigid and reliable of the bracing devices for the neck. By holding the neck rigidly, and preventing movement, a doctor can tell if preventing motion will reduce the pain in the neck and or in the neck and arms. If the brace helps, then the doctor knows that the source of the pain is excessive motion around the joints, or vertebral bodies of the neck, and the patient would benefit from trials with facet blocks, and if these don’t last, then a fusion (Long, D, Davis, R, Speed, W, and Hendler, N, Fusion for Occult Post-traumatic Cervical Facet Injury, Neurosurgery Quarterly, Vol. 16, No 3, pp 129-134, Sept.
