New study reveals alarming increase in cases of cervical artery dissection, a little-known but growing cause of stroke.

However, for 41-year-old Carissa Klundt, it caused a tear in the artery that runs along her spine. A vertebral artery dissection, or VAD, is a tear in one or more tissue layers that make up the ...

Introduction Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and only a few cases of dissection have been reported. [1–3] Sudden head rotation in swinging a ...

Las Vegas mom of three Carissa Klundt ended up in the ICU and was bedridden for weeks after a chiropractic injury.

Vertebral Artery Dissection Caused by Swinging a Golf Club Case Report and Literature Review Shoko M. Yamada, MD; Yoshiaki Goto, MD; Mineko Murakami, MD; Katsumi Hoya, MD; Akira Matsuno, MD ...

Repeated twisting of the uppermost part of your spine can lead to laxity and instability; sports doctors recommend safer options ...

To prepare for her first half-marathon, Kandi Schmitz signed up for a 5K run. Six friends and family members decided to join her. The race was in Melbourne, Florida, a two-hour drive from Schmitz's ...

Eighteen patients with carotid artery dissection patients (cases) were compared with 34 sex-matched patients with vertebral artery dissection (G1)and 55 sex-matched patients without dissection (G2).

In 2009, a systematic review compared CT angiography with MRI/MR angiography and found them to be equally suited to detect dissection of the carotid artery and the vertebral artery (7). In another ...

In this case study, we presented a challenging neurovascular intervention where a Woven EndoBridge (WEB) intrasaccular device was used to treat a 4.5 mm ruptured vertebral artery fusiform aneurysm by ...