Head, Neck, and Trunk Injury - Fisiokinesiterapia Focal injury {Tissue damage restricted to a...
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Head, Neck, and Trunk Injury
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Overview
HeadBrain
Neck/TrunkSpine
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Causes of Head Injury
McGehee 1996
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Unique mechanics
Skull: stiff, slightly compressible containerBrain: compliant tissue
Most important structureIntracranial tissues
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Classifications
Focal injuryTissue damage restricted to a limited area
Diffuse injuryDamages over a large region of neural tissue
Closed injuryNo exposure to external environment
Penetrating injuryDirect penetration of the skull and its neurovascular contents
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Motion
Acceleration vs. Deceleration
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General Force Applications
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Linear translation
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Off-center force Rotation
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Head rotation + Body translation (soccer header and push)
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Depressed skull fracture
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Rotation – boxing upper cut
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Boxing
Hand, wrist, face, brain injury risk650 deaths worldwide in last century
Note: higher injury rates in college football, scuba diving, motorcycle racing, hang gliding, skydiving, horse racing
Devastating cumulative neurological injuries
“Dementia pugilistica”
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Skull Fracture
Usually blunt traumaDeleterious consequences of the fracture itself are typically minimal
What matters is what’s underneathCerebral contusionsIntracranial hemorrhageExposure to contaminants
Can show up later, after the initial CT scan
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Fracture locations
Along the convexity, or vault, of the skull
Low-velocity, blunt traumaThrough the skull base
High-velocity and acceleration
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Depression
May tear dura materIncreases likelihood of hemorrhage in subarachnoid space
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Cerebral Concussion and Contusion
1941 concussion definition: “Traumatic paralysis of neural function in the absence of lesions”Almost always acceleration or deceleration mechanism with direct blow to head
Not necessarily high F.Typically α, not a
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Accelerations
α diffuse, widespread injurya focal injury only
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Contusion mechanisms
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Coup or contrecoup
Coup: contusion directly beneath the site of impactContrecoup: contusion opposite the impact locationWhy?
“The inertia of the malleable brain, which causes it to be flung against the side of the skull that was struck, to be pulled away from the contralateral side, and to rotate against bony promontories within the cranial cavity explains these coup-contrecoup contusions.” Adams and Victor 1993
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63 fatalities: Occipital impacts
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Frontal impacts
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Lateral impacts
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Secondary injury
Brain swelling increased intracranial pressure
Compromised neurovascular functionCerebral ischemiaHerniation into adjacent intracranial spaces
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More severe injury
Diffuse Axonal InjuryConcussion feature is absence of detectable pathologyDAI shows damage to neural structures
Usually shear strain from angular acceleration of head
Most severe are frontal plane α.
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Penetrating Injury
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Definition
Usually, an object has pierced the cranium and has exposed the contents of the cranial vault
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Categories
MissileBullets, shrapnelVast majority
Non-missileA.K.A. perforationKnives, nails, keys, car antennas, arrows
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Ballistics
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Facial Fractures
Neurological injury associated with facial fracture as high as 76% of the timeUsually forceful blunt trauma
Another personAn implement (hockey stick, baseball bat)A projectile (golf ball)An unyielding surface (steering wheel)
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Seat belts and airbags
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Facial bone F and P tolerance
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Neck Injury
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Must consider the spinal cord
At neck, level is vitalC3-C4: paralysis of trunk and extremities, loss of unassisted respirationC5-C6: limited arm movementC7-T1: maybe just LE paralysis
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Location
Not only is location important because of level of spinal cord, but also…
Overall motion of head WRT trunk may not be indicative of local motion between adjacent segmentsSmall deviations (<1cm) in the point of force application or head position can change injury mechanism
Compression-flexion vs. compression-extension, e.g.
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Loading mechanisms
Reminder!
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Flexion-compression
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Loading on vertebra
Flexion-compression can also cause shear fracture at anteroinferior corner of cervical vertebral body
“Teardrop” fractureAlso from extension, can be combined with sagittal fractures
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Extension-Tension Injury
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Whiplash
Newton’s First LawNote magnificationNote phase shift
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Common whiplash lesions
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Cervical Spondylosis
Degeneration of cervical IV disks and surrounding structures
Reduced heightBony outgrowthRisk of
spinal stenosis (narrowed canal) ImpingementImpaired blood perfusion of spinal cord
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Trunk Injuries
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Spinal Cord Risks
Vertebral FractureDisk degenerationSpinal deformitiesSpondylolysis, Spondylolisthesis
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Vertebral fracture
Main concern is proximity to spinal cord, possible impingementUsual cause: axial compression
C-spine andThoracolumbar (T11-L3)
Minimal curvatureTransition zone between rigid T and flexible L
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“Burst fracture” (Holdsworth, 1970)Body of vertebra can shatter from withinMay cause multiaxial instability
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Role of disk degeneration
Compressive stresses change depending on level of disk degeration
Burst fractures more dangerous with healthy disks
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Normal Disk
Degenerated Disk
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Spinal deformities
ScoliosisFrontal plan curvatureTransverse outcomes as wellOrthotic treatment can slow progression but not correct
KyphosisExcessive sagittal thoracic curvature
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Spondylolysis
Defect in the area of the lamina between the superior and inferior articular facets (pars interarticularis)
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Spondylolisthesis
Translational motion, or slippage, between adjacent vertebral bodies
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The Spondylos
Especially affect young and athletic populationsFive types
Dysplastic (hereditary or congenital)Isthmic (succession of microfractures)DegenerativeTraumaticPathological (e.g. infection)
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Mechanisms for pars defect failures
Repetitive spinal flexionCombined flexion and extensionForcible hyperextensionLumbar spine rotation
At risk: gymnasts, weight lifters, wrestlers, divers
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Low-Back Pain
A course by itself!
An IV disk mechanics lesson: the neutral axis
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IV disk pathology
Sprain (annular fibers)Fluid ingestion by NPAnnulus disruptionBulging diskSequestered fragment (from AF or NP into joint space)Degenerating disk
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Low back pain
Affects 80% of the population 85% never specifically disgnosed
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Conclusion
LE was important because:UE was important because:Head/neck/trunk are important because:
Greatest potential for catastrophic injury
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Interesting Injury Cases
Head TraumaShoulder Reduction
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Head Trauma Cases
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Massive Trauma –Automobile Accident
Post-op CT film to monitor bone growth
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Head-Penetration Injury
The curious case of PhineasGage
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Poor Phineas
25 y/o railroad construction foremanMid-19th century VermontPlacing explosives to blast stone from the path of the Rutland & Burlington RailroadUsing an iron rod to tamp blasting powder into a hole
13 lb, 1.25 inches in diameter, 3.5 feet long
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Powder exploded prematurely, launching rod 100 feet away, and through Gage’s head in the process.
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“The rod landed more than 100 feet away, covered in blood and brains.
Phineas Gage has been thrown to the ground. He is stunned, in the
afternoon glow, silent but awake.”
Damasio 1994
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Free Soil Union (Ludlow, Vermont), September 14, 1848
“The powder exploded, carrying an iron instrument through his head an inch and a fourth in circumference, and three feet and eight inches in length, which he was using at the time. The iron entered on the side of his face, shattering the upper jaw, and passing back of the left eye and out at the top of his head. The most singular circumstance connected with this melancholy affair is, that he was alive at 2 o'clock this afternoon and in full possession of his reason, and free from pain.”
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The Cure
Gage was pronounced fully cured within two months of the accidentNo difficulty walking, touching, hearing, or speaking
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BUTGage was “not the same Gage”No longer a conscientious workerProgressive alterations in personality, social reasoning skillsMore combative, vulgarEventual epileptic seizures, died 11.5 years later
Implications on brain centers then unknown
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The Damage
Small area under the zygomatic arch where the tamping iron first impactedOrbital boneExit: frontal and parietal bones
Total area 3.5”x2”Mostly reconstructed
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Recreations, Scenarios“Hinged Skull” scenario: soft tissue contained a hinge of skull fragment that was closed immediately following the insult
P. Ratiu, I-F Talos, S. Hawker, D. Lieberman, and P. Everett. (2004). The tale of Phineas Gage, Digitally remastered. Journal of Neurotrauma, 21, 637-643.
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Reducing Shoulder Dislocations
Hippocrates, pg. 4
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Hippocrates (460-377 BC), Traction reduction:
injured arm placed in slight abductiondownward/adduction forces applied to the arm, while counter-traction is applied
counter-traction (still used) provided by the surgeon's foot placed in the patient's axillaAlternative methods described by Hippocrates:
placing the affected arm over a variety of objects, including a long stick, a ladder rung, or the back of a chair and pulling down using gravity as counter-traction. surgeon places his shoulder in the patient's axilla, then lifts the patient up while holding the affected arm. Hippocrates stated that, for success, the surgeon required a certain amount of strength and that he needed to be taller than the patient.
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16th Century: Ambroise Paré
Ladder MethodMount patient on a stool next to a ladderBind sound arm and legsPlace affected arm through rung of ladderRemove stool
Notes: caution against “breaking shoulder bone”Ensure patient does not place head through rungs “lest he break his neck”
J.R.Coll.Surg.Edinb., 45,October 2000, 312-316
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Stimson (1905) Hanging Arm Technique
Hole in canvas cot10 pound sandbag hung on arm“After no greater than 6 minutes, reduction occurred due to muscle relaxation
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Kocher’s method (1870)
Looked a lot like a wall painting on an Egyptian tomb from 1200 BC
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Caution
May fracture humeral neck or shaft in elderly individuals
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Scapular Manipulation
Like Stimson’s hanging arm technique, but with additional force on scapulaAlso attempted in seated and supine positions
Mirick MJ, Clinton JE, Ruiz E. External rotation method of shoulder dislocation reduction. J Am Coll Emerg Phys 1979;8(12):528-31.
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