Your patient, James Cook, a 32 year old travel writer came off his motorcycle
which skidded on some ice. The paramedics have him immobilised on a spinal
board with a rigid cervical collar in place. According to them there was no
loss of consciousness at any time, and he is responding appropriately to
commands. He is not complaining of any neck pain.
On general examination you find no neurology and no evidence of other injury.
With an assistant manually stabilising his neck, you remove the collar and
examine the patient. There is no bony tenderness, deformity or defect.
Think you can handle this one, or do you want to go back to the manic kazoo-wielding
burger juggler?