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In this issue of Neurosurgery News, several experts join together to discuss return-to-play in contact sport athletes with persistent cervical cord MRI T2 hyperintensity following trauma, risk of adjacent level fractures after balloon-assisted kyphoplasty, childhood risks of contact sports, Cervical Spondylitic Myelopathy, and memory and traumatic brain injury.
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Drs. Bost, Carlson, Deibert, Dixon, Tempel, and Ms. Wappler, and Ms. Osier and Ms. Paschel have reported no relevant relationships with any entities producing health care goods or services.
Dr. Gerszten is a consultant for Zimmer Spine.
Dr. Kanter is a consultant for Nuvasive and receives a royalty from Blomet.
Dr. Maroon is a consultant for the NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers and a stockholder in ImPACT Technologies.
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Release Date: 8/7/2015 | Last Modified On: 8/7/2015 | Expires: 8/8/2016
