How can an injury at the passage from neck to head be determined then?
The diagnosis and therapy of injuries at the passage from head to neck a bit more closely: Patients with a whiplash injury of the cervical spine that does not involve an osseous injury or the injury of nerval structures face the problem that these patients are examined by accident surgeons, orthopaedists etc. and that normal X-ray images are made for the examination. These images naturally do not indicate changes of the cervical vertebrae resp. of the affected section since normally a static image is taken. This situation applies also to modern examination, like e.g. computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging because these are not functional examinations. With a patient lying still, of course no torn ligaments can be detected. This can be compared with a tear-off of the ligaments at the knee-joint. If the knee-joint ligaments are torn, the patient is not capable of walking. But the X-ray images performed while lying do not result in an abnormal statement. If the knee and also th
