Spinal Cord Injuries - Is Stable Versus Unstable?

A lot of times we like to talk about is this a stable or an unstable fracture? So how do we determine stable versus unstable? When referring to the spine, it's you have three columns of the spine and if they have all three columns that are damaged, that would be an unstable fracture. And what type of injuries will usually give you that? We'll just say blunt or penetrating? Blunt. Okay, so real quick respiratory issues in spinal cord injury: What are the spinal cord levels that control the diaphragm? C3, 4, and 5. Yeah, yeah, very, very uncommon have an unstable penetrating spine injury. Any question about the neck is generally going