What does AO stand for?

Atlanto-Occipital (joint)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

They also learn to perform atlanto-occipital joint linked to the restricted side.

Somatic Tinnitus the Treatment Plan

1) The anterior atlanto-occipital membrane extends from C1 to the clivus.

MRI in acute spinal trauma

Nash L, Nicholson H, Lee AS, Johnson GM and Zhang M (2005): Configuration of the connective tissue in the posterior atlanto-occipital interspace: a sheet plastination and confocal microscopy study.

Out of Aotearoa

These myalgic disturbances are called "the ocular-cervical syndrome" which consists of a pressure sensibility of the atlanto-occipital articulation, trochlealgia (neuralgia of ciliary nerves), and myalgia of the obliquus superior and of the rectus inferior muscles.

Lymph-remedies in ophthalmology

Simple maneuvers, such as bimanual laryngoscopy (the operator uses his or her right hand to manipulate the larynx for a better view), proper shaping of the stylet (straight back to the cuff, then bent upward at 45-60 degrees), and increasing head elevation (neck flexion, not atlanto-occipital extension) all were critical in the above case, he says.

Case study: Use direct laryngoscopy

It is known that he atlanto-occipital plane and therefore the socle joint (C2 vertebral body) are especially vulnerable to indirect trauma.

MRI video diagnosis and surgical therapy of soft tissue trauma to the ...

Our patient indeed had atlanto-occipital instability secondary to a locally destructive tumor of the cranial base, known as a clival chordoma.

Neck pain: common complaint, uncommon diagnosis--symptomatic clival ...

Case study: Use direct laryngoscopy