Erschienen in:
01.06.2014 | Letter to the Editor
Spinal myoclonus after cervical spine extension procedure: case report
verfasst von:
Svetlana Tomic, Mirjana Cubra, Stjepan Juric, Tea Mirosevic Zubonja, Tamer Salha
Erschienen in:
Neurological Sciences
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Ausgabe 6/2014
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Excerpt
Cervical spine extension is a kinesitherapeutic procedure where traction of cervical spinal cord is performed manually. It is most commonly used in treatment of degenerative spine diseases [
1]. Myoclonus is a brief (less than half a second long) contraction involving agonist and antagonist muscles, leading to a sudden jerk [
2]. We present a patient who developed spinal myoclonus after cervical spine extension procedure. …