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1: Clin Sports Med. 2003 Jul;22(3):483-92.Links

Stingers, cervical cord neurapraxia, and stenosis.

Castro FP Jr.

Tulane University Health Sciences Center, 1430 Tulane Avenue SL-32, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. Bozothetruth@netscape.net

The risk of sustaining a stinger, CCN, or a more serious catastrophic injury to the cervical spine increases with increasing stenosis. The RR of a player sustaining a second stinger or CCN increases exponentially when compared with the risk of a player sustaining an initial stinger or CCN. Intravenous steroids have no role in the management of stingers or CCN. Players who remain symptomatic after a stinger, players with persistently abnormal diagnostic studies after a stinger, and any player who experiences a CCN should be excluded from further participation in contact sports.

PMID: 12852681 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]