A mother nearly died in 2022 during a chiropractor visit when the practitioner cracked her neck so hard it tore an artery.

Aside from the axillary artery, the subclavian arteries branch into the internal thoracic artery, vertebral artery ... Rahimi O, Geiger Z. Anatomy, thorax, subclavian arteries. In: StatPearls.

Vertebral artery tears are the most common cause of ... Other common risk factors include: Due to the anatomy of the brainstem and its widespread connections, patients may experience some symptoms ...

Penetrating vertebral artery injuries are rare and very difficult to diagnose and because of complex anatomy, difficult surgical exposure are challenging for surgeons [4] [5] . This artery is divided ...

Brief explanations regarding anatomy, vascular anomalies and embryology were provided. A literature review showed that anomalous branches of the cervical segment of the vertebral artery are infrequent ...

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice ... In the case described, the right vertebral artery was not a branch of the right subclavian artery, but arose as a branch of the right ...

There is no hole in the transverse processes of this vertebra for the vertebral artery as in the vertebrae above it. Cervical seven also has the largest spinous process in the cervical spine; it's the ...

FIGURE 8 Functional anatomy of the occipitopharyngeal system at the upper ... There are also rich connections of these extracranial arteries with the internal carotid artery (red) and vertebral ...

Therefore, when the anatomy is favorable (namely co-dominant or dominant contralateral vertebral artery and no involvement of PICA in the aneurysmal segment), endovascular parent artery coil occlusion ...

Vascular imaging is helpful in delineating the anatomy of the vertebrobasilar circulation ... and persistent PPA arising from the left external carotid artery (ECA) and hypoplastic vertebral arteries ...

Professor of anatomy at Lancaster University ... Roffe explained that the vertebral artery is vulnerable to injury by rotation and the bending of the neck, as it passes through a bony canal ...