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Posture and Motion of the Cervical Spine

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Despite the still expanding research on the cervical spine, an explanation of the newborn cervical spine, of the mature head and neck motions, and of the biomechanical cause(s) of whiplash are incomplete. Presumably, this is due to the lack of notion of the interrelated anatomy of the constituting structures, to restricted studies on motion functions of the individual segmental and blocks of cervical vertebrae. The achondroplastic craniocervical junction is treated. The genetic research clarified the cartilage–bone development that presumably will ameliorate the development of achondroplastic children.

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Marani, E., Heida, C. (2018). Posture and Motion of the Cervical Spine. In: Head and Neck. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92105-1_10

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