The effect of spinal immobilization on healthy volunteers
| Autor: | Dennis Chan, Linda Chan, Stacy Harmon, Arthur Tascone, Richard Goldberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Male Emergency Medical Services medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Pain Disease Immobilization Lumbar Occipital headache Healthy volunteers medicine Humans Prospective Studies Child Prospective cohort study Rachis business.industry Spinal Injuries Anesthesia Emergency Medicine Physical therapy Female University teaching business MANDIBULAR PAIN |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Emergency Medicine. 23:48-51 |
| ISSN: | 0196-0644 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0196-0644(94)70007-9 |
| Popis: | Study objective: To determine the effects of standard spinal immobilization on a group of healthy volunteers with respect to induced pain and discomfort. Design: Prospective study. Setting: University teaching hospital. Type of participants: Twenty-one healthy volunteers with no history of back disease. Interventions: Subjects were placed in standard backboard immobilization for a 30-minute period. Number and severity of immediate and delayed symptoms were determined. Measurements and main results: One hundred percent of subjects developed pain within the immediate observation per iod. Occipital headache and sacral, lumbar, and mandibular pain were the most frequent symptoms. Fifty-five percent of subjects graded their symptoms as moderate to severe. Twenty-nine percent of subjects developed additional symptoms over the next 48 hours. Conclusion: Standard spinal immobilization may be a cause of pain in an otherwise healthy subject. |
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