Case Study #1

This patient (GB) was injured while playing rugby in Australia - he was knocked unconscious for a couple of minutes and has since suffered some bizarre symptomatology, most notably imbalance.  The primary injury occurred when he was knocked to the ground, landing on his stomach with his head turned to the side and another player landed on his upper back/head.  After receiving upper cervical care, he went on to start an upper cervical website and international referral directory - you can visit his site here.

Radiographs (X-ray)

Sagittal and Horizontal views.  Note the extreme (7-degrees) rotation of the atlas (left anterior).

 

 

 

 

 

 

MRI

The two images have different weighting; note how on the image on the right, structures with high water content appear white.  Note the disc bulge between C4-5, which is indenting the thecal sac.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surface EMG

 

 

 

 

Surface Electromyography showing abnormal muscular activity on the right.  8-days after his first Atlas Orthogonal adjustment, a post-scan was performed (left), which showed some transient activity after the patient had sat all day long.