Clinical presentation. Patients present with severe, focal neck pain. There may be neurological symptoms due to spinal cord injury.. Pathology. Anterior subluxation of the cervical spine results from posterior ligamentous complex injury, however, there may be an associated posterior intervertebral disc injury and compression fractures of the anterior vertebral bodies 1-3.
Myotomes. Anatomy and function of the peripheral nervous system. A myotome is a group of muscles innervated by the ventral root a single spinal nerve. This term is based on the combination of two Ancient Greek roots; "myo-" meaning "muscle", and "tome", a "cutting" or "thin segment". Like spinal nerves, myotomes arekuMQ.