Clinical Decision Making Associated With an Undetected Odontoid Fracture in an Older Individual Referred to Physical Therapy for the Treatment of Neck Pain

The Pearls and Pitfalls of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Spine

“…9,45 For example, a short-tau inversion-recovery sequence, an extremely important pulse sequence in musculoskeletal imaging of normal bone containing fatty marrow, could provide additional information to highlight areas of undetected fractures, bone bruising, and tumors via fat suppression (also known as fatsat, fat saturation, or opposed-phase imaging). Other conventional MRI sequences can be also used to accurately identify fractures or the presence of other pathologies (eg, os odontoideum) 71 when initial radiographs do not allow for adequate interpretation (FIGURE 1) 82 or they may have been missed during evaluation (FIGURE 2).…”

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Generating a New Pulse in the Physical Therapy Profession

“…Clinicians and researchers in our field have published and continue to publish seminal and oftentimes multidisciplinary works related to imaging. 6,8,9,[12][13][14][15][16]23,24,[26][27][28] Our journals continue to publish more imaging-related studies/cases, and our professional conferences encourage and accept poster and platform submissions that feature imaging. Finally, the recent development of the Special Interest Group on Imaging within the Orthopedic Section of the APTA is another important contribution to developing practice competencies, reducing practice variability, fostering imaging curriculum in physical therapist education, and promoting the role of the physical therapist, as a primary care team member, in judicious referral for imaging procedures.…”

Physical Therapists Referring Patients to Physicians: A Review of Case Reports and Series

“…In some of these publications, multiple patients were described, providing a total of 71 individual patient cases for review. 1,[4][5][6][7][8][12][13][14][15][16]17,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]34,35,[37][38][39]41,42,44,[46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]58,[60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]…”