Radiographing the Cervical Spine (4 CR)

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Course Overview:

1. Anatomy and Standard Radiography (66 min)
   • Anatomy – basic vertebra
   • Routine Patient Positioning
2. Routine Patient Positioning (65 min)
   • APOM improvement: Plan A, Plan B, Plan C
   • Neutral lateral improvement
3. Routine Patient Positioning and X-ray quality (62 min)
   • Routine Views; improvement of flexion, extension, and obliques
   • Quality Assessment
   • Supplementary Cervical Spine Views
   • Comments on Specific Upper Cervical Views
4. How Quality Affects Assessment, 1 of 2 (60 min)
   • How x-ray quality enhances doctors’ capacity to interpret findings
   • Variants and congenital anomalies
   • Mechanical
   • Disc abnormalities and degenerative processes
   • Listhesis: antero- and retro-
5. How Quality affects assessment, 2 of 2 (49 min)
   • Trauma: Fracture, dislocation, strains, sprains
   • Ankylosing conditions: A.S. and DISH
   • Bone tumors: Benign and metastatic
   • Infection
6. Other Cervical Spine Issues (42 min)
   • Extraspinal findings
   • Surgical artifacts
   • Advanced imaging

6-hour version includes Units 1-6.
4-hour version includes Units 1-4.