Kinematics
A body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will remain in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion
The skull perches on the ring-shaped first cervical vertebra (C1), also know as this.
What is the atlas?
A section of intestine, tissue, or other abdominal organ is displaced through an open wound and protrudes outside the abdominal cavity.
What is an evisceration?
A band of tough, inelastic, fibrous tissue that connects a muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
One half of the mass X the velocity squared.
What is kinetic energy?
Typically refers to force applied to the spine from the head downward.
What is axial loading?
The breakdown of muscle tissue with the release of intracellular muscle components into the circulation.
What is rhabdomyolysis?
Forcing tissues of the body out of their normal position causing a temporary or permanent cavity.
What is cavitation?
A neurologic phenomenon that occurs for a variable amount of time after spinal cord injuries (usually less than 48 hours), resulting in temporary loss of sensory and motor function, muscle flaccidity and paralysis, and loss of reflexes below the level of the injury.
What is spinal shock?
A limb-threatening condition in which the blood supply to an extremity is compromised by increased pressure within that limb.
What is compartment syndrome?
The most common form of primary blast injury.
What is tympanic membrane rupture?
Midline neck or spinal pain and/or tenderness, AMS, paralysis, focal neurologic S/S, anatomic deformity of the spine, presence of a distracting injury, inability to communicate.
What are indications for spinal motion restriction?
An amputated part is transported to the hospital with the patient wrapped in this.
What is moist, sterile gauze?
Fractures received from being thrown during an explosion.
What are tertiary injuries?
A partial dislocation of a vertebra from it's normal alignment in the spinal column.
What is subluxation?