- Common cause of disability
- Most common causes:
– RTA, Fall, Penetrating trauma, Sports - Highly prone to traumatic injury:
- Mobile, relatively unprotected, and its high position
- 60% of all spinal injuries occur in the cervical spine
- Subaxial cervical spine injuries include:
- 2/3rd of all cervical fractures
- 75% of all cervical dislocations
- One third of injuries occur at the level of C2, and one half of injuries occur at the level of C6 or C7.
