Radiology Cases Dislocation in the Spine LSBU

Description: Dislocation in the spine is special. The vertebra are arranged to be a mobile column of bony rings that supports the weight of the body and allows trunk rotation. Displcement of one vertebral realtive to another is serious, unless it is rotation of parts about an axis that is the spinal cord, the vulnerable contents of the intervertebral canal. In the cervical spine, chiropractors have reminded us that the vertebral arteries pass within the cervical transverse processes and can be damaged by excess movement.
Some pathologies will increase movement by eroding the joints, Rheumatoid is one example. Other pathologies restrict spinal movement so that the necessary effort to move the spine will cause local displacement of unaffected vertebrae that may compromise the cord.