What prevents atlantoaxial instability?
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What prevents atlantoaxial instability?
Individuals with AAI are restricted from participation in certain activities that may result in cervical spine injury. These include gymnastics, diving, pentathlon, butterfly stroke, diving starts in swimming, high jump, soccer, and certain warmup exercises.
What causes AAI?
AAI may occur as a result of abnormalities or trauma associated with the C1-2 articulation, causing excessive movement around this joint. This includes the articulation between the anterior arch of C1 and the odontoid process of C2, as well as the facet joints of the posterior elements.
How is atlas subluxation treated?
Background. Atlantoaxial subluxation (AAS) is a not rare abnormality between the atlas (C1) and axis (C2). For AAS patients with persistent neck pain and neurologic symptoms, surgical intervention is a good choice.
How is CCI treated?
Traditional “conservative” treatments for CCI include rest, pain management, upper cervical chiropractic treatment, and bracing with a cervical collar. Although, in most cases these offer little relief. Other experimental treatments for CCI include prolotherapy and stem cell therapy.
What is CCI surgery?
Craniocervical junction surgery is an operation performed on the bones in the junction between the skull and the spine. The craniocervical junction includes the bone that forms the base of the skull, called the occipital bone, and the first two bones in the spine, called the atlas and the axis.
How do you treat AAI?
Unless symptoms of spinal cord compression occur, AAI requires no treatment. Once symptoms arise, cervical spine stabilization is indicated until surgical stabilization is performed.
What is CCI and AAI?
CCI refers to instability in any part of the craniocervical junction while AAI refers to instability at C1-C2. The only reason to differentiate them is usually that atlantoaxial instability patients can be treated with a less invasive C1-C2 screw fixation while CCI patients may need more extensive surgery.
How do you stabilize C1 and C2?
Some common nonsurgical treatments for C1-C2 include:
- Medication.
- Immobilization.
- Physical therapy.
- Chiropractic manipulation.
- Traction refers to stretching and/or realigning the spine to relieve direct nerve pressure and stress on the vertebral levels.
What is atlas treatment?
The Atlas Orthogonal Program is a revolutionary advancement in chiropractic upper cervical techniques used to find and correct misalignment of the first vertebrae of the spine, the atlas bone. This procedure is based on scientific and bio-mechanical principles.
How do you fix a C1 subluxation?
The treatment of pain that stems from C1-C2 in the upper neck is usually nonsurgical….Nonsurgical Treatment for C1-C2
- Medication.
- Immobilization.
- Physical therapy.
- Chiropractic manipulation.
- Traction refers to stretching and/or realigning the spine to relieve direct nerve pressure and stress on the vertebral levels.
How is AAI diagnosed?
Diagnosis. Most cases of asymptomatic AAI are made through screening X-rays. All children with Down syndrome should be screened for AAI by the age of 3. The diagnosis of symptomatic AAI is usually made either through the neurological exam ( the physical exam that examines how the nerves are working) and/or by X-ray.
What is atlas Orthogonal treatment?
Atlas Orthogonal (AO) is an advanced scientific instrument program to adjust the Atlas Vertebrae (top bone of the neck) without popping and cracking the neck. This method of chiropractic manipulation is gentle, effective and precise.
