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The head-neck-joints instability conditions

Welcome! This website is about

• Atlanto-axial instability (AAI, AAD) conditions and
• Atlanto-occipital instability (AOI, AOD) conditions

We try to separate the disease definitions AOD and AAD from non-acute, persisting instability conditions. Hence we try to introduce a new nomenclature:

• AAI (Atlanto-axial instability) and
• AOI (Atlanto-occipital instability)

Contents 1 The head-neck-joints instability conditions 2 Quickstart 3 Purpose of this website? 4 Nagivation 4.1 Overview 4.2 Surgical intervention 4.3 Therapies in common 4.4 1:1 Gray Anatomy (not easy to understand) 4.5 Special indices 4.6 Special pages

Quickstart

Table of contents Available documents from the overview:

• The whiplash injury and its diagnosis

• Anatomy of the vertebral column
• Anatomy of the cervical spine
• Symptoms linked to head-neck-joint instability

• Diseases of the cervical spine
• Head neck joint stabilization therapy

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• All-in-one document about Head-neck-joint instabilities

Purpose of this website?

Initiated by a group of patients with upper cervical joints instabilities (head-neck-joint instabilities) this website wants to provide information about whiplash associated disorders, such as:

• Simple whiplash trauma
• Whiplash trauma with (servere) ligamental injury or torn articulations that lead to upper cervical joints instabilities

and the successful diagnostical steps and helpful treatment.

Many patients have to go a long way until they find real help by surgical stabilization, because only few medical professionals know about such instability conditions!

Head-neck-joint instabilities are directly linked to whiplash injuries.

Many had to go through a real odyssey of medical treatment without improving any of that really bad symptoms. Hence we want to serve information to help people suffering after whiplash injuries.

Imaging of head-neck-joint instabilities is very difficult with common techniques. So this kind of injury is mostly unkwown and widely underdiagnosed.

Nagivation

Overview

Available documents from the overview:

• The whiplash injury and its diagnosis

• Anatomy of the vertebral column
• Anatomy of the cervical spine
• Symptoms linked to head-neck-joint instability

• Diseases of the cervical spine
• Head neck joint stabilization therapy

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• All-in-one document about Head-neck-joint instabilities

Surgical intervention

• Index.php/Overview: Head neck joint stabilization therapy
• Overview: Head neck joint stabilization therapy
• Posterior Instrumentation Surgery for Craniocervical

Therapies in common

• Index.php/Overview: Head neck joint stabilization therapy
• MedPub:Redislocation in a halo vest of an atlanto-occipital dislocation in a child: recommendations for treatment
• Overview: Head neck joint stabilization therapy
• Overview:Video Capture of Surgical Stabilization Technique
• Posterior Instrumentation Surgery for Craniocervical
• The craniocervical instability - teaching with a model

1:1 Gray Anatomy (not easy to understand)

Table of contents

Gray:Articulation of the Atlas with the Epistropheus or Axis Gray:Articulations of the Vertebral Column with the Cranium Gray:The Cranial Bones Gray:The Interior of the Skull

Gray:The alar ligaments Gray:The cervical vertebrae Gray:The exterior of the Skull

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Special indices

• The Index: All available documents listed
• Overview over all categories of the whiplash-connection

Special pages

• Special:Newimages
• Special:Popularpages