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TO THE EDITOR:

I found "The Relationship of Developmental Narrowing of the Cervical Spinal Canal to Reversible and Irreversible Injury of the Cervical Spinal Cord in Football Players. An Epidemiological Study" (78-A: 1308–1314, Sept. 1996), by Torg et al., to be quite interesting.

The data presented seem to show that football players who have had a transient neurapraxia have a relatively narrow spinal canal as well as a small ratio of the diameter of the spinal canal to the size of the vertebral body. With regard to individuals who are quadriplegic as the result of an injury, the authors concluded that their results "may indicate that permanent neurological loss results from an injury of a vertebral body that is radiographically smaller and that fails during axial loading."

While analyzing the figures, I wondered how the cohorts compared with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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