Spinal Cord Injury

A 24-year-old male residing at Barrackpore, West Bengal, had a history of injury of neck following diving in shallow water around 15 h back before he presented to our hospital. Following the injury of the neck, he had lost his consciousness for 10–15 s and developed weakness in all four limbs. The patient was managed conservatively at another hospital outside where MRI of the cervical spine was done which revealed cervical spine injury (C4–C5 subluxation and displaced fracture) associated with haematoma and cord compression (Fig. 36.1).