1. Risk kinds of sport:

Ride, wheel driving, martial arts, combat spoprt, tower jumping, bungeejumping, force haven, gymnastic, engine haven, trampoline jumping

2. Function:

The mobility of the neck spinal column and thus adjustment of the head are normally into all directions possible. It is individually different from their endgradigen movement extent. Remarkable is however, if a direction of motion is suddenly painfully reduced. Reason for it blockings in the neck spinal column and/or muscular spannings are frequent. In addition, serious damage (volume disk incidents) is possible. Fractures of the cervical spine

3. Injury mechanism:

- Fall with higher speed and “estimate themselves” or violently brake (centrifuge trauma)
- Fall on the head or shoulder range
- Obligation attitude of the head or the shoulder belt
- Quick movement of the head into a endgradige position

4. Symptoms:

- Movement restriction of the neck spinal column in one or more directions
- Pain with movement of the neck spinal column
- Headache
- if necessary swindles
- if necessary Kribbeln in the hands or deafness feeling immediately physician visit
- if necessary visual disturbances (e.g. double pictures) immediately physician visit
- Pain with movement one or both arms
- Hardening the neck and neck musculature
- Nausea Other pain causes:
- knöcherne injury of the head or the neck spinal column
- Volume disk incident
- Head cerebral trauma
- Brain bleedings
- neurological illnesses (e.g. accumulation suffering)
- Tumore
- Illnesses of the upper chest spinal column or the shoulders

5. First measures:

- Indulgence
- Immobilizing (scarf, Halskrause, if available)
- Warmth

6. Diagnostics:

A physician should be visited, in order to exclude a being present from heavier injuries in each case.
- Roentgen
- careful mobility examination of the neck spinal column
- neurological investigation
- if necessary nuclear spin or computer tomography

7. Therapy: (Caution, frequently lengthily!!!)

a) Conservative therapy
- Chirotherapie
- muscle-relaxing medicines
- schmerzlindernde and abschwellend working medicines
- Physiotherapie (under expert guidance and self-exercise after arrangement with the therapist)
- with strong pain injections to the points of pain
- Akupunktur
- if necessary brief carrying of an immobilizing seal b) Operational therapy
- with volume disk incidents if necessary operational therapy

8. Physiotherapy / rehablitation:

- Manual therapy
- Stabilization
- Massage
- Heat's application
- Ultrasonic therapy
- Back school
- Muscle strengthening

9.Prevention:

- Stabilisation training for the neck spinal column

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