Although Williams can move his arms and legs, he was diagnosed with a fracture of the C3 vertebra. He will have surgery to have two vertebrae fused this weekend.

The C3 vertebra of today's giraffe is nine times longer than its width -- about as long as an adult human's humerus bone, which stretches from the shoulder to the elbow.

Doctors were baffled by a man’s severe throat pain that spread to his neck and shoulder. The cause was found after he started hemorrhaging in a hospital waiting room.

The vertebrae are the bones that surround the spinal cord from your lower back all the way up to your skull. The hangman’s fracture refers to a break in a bone known as C2, because it is the ...

The bullet severed his C3 vertebrae. Even after an experimental stem cell transplant in Portugal a few years later, Adam is still unable to move anything below his shoulders and relies on a ...

18-year-old Brandon Simmons was nervous about his first time going out in public since a car accident left him with a C3 spinal cord injury. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta reports on how navigating physical ...

John Philpott fractured his C3 vertebrae and was paralyzed from the neck down in an accident at a fire and police training facility 20 years ago. Following the accident, Philpott spent six months ...

Eric LeGrand is all about removing stigmas around spinal cord injuries in the most spirited ways possible. Ever since his C3 and C4 vertebrae were fractured in 2010 when he was playing football at ...

Belfast man Ryan Henderson's sporting journey has seen him recover from suffering a broken vertebra in a motocross accident to making history on a BMX bike.

A Perth dad who fractured his spine when a scrum collapsed during a rugby union match is showing positive signs as he ...

In his motorcycle-racing career, Billy Laninovich broke his leg, fractured his wrist, underwent four ACL reconstructions, mashed his collarbone three times, busted his C3 vertebra, separated his ...