Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO It can be tricky to pinpoint the cause of pain at the base of your skull, the area behind your ears where your head and neck meet. Understanding the cause of the ...

Zoledronate, administered at baseline and again after five years, effectively reduces the incidence of morphometric vertebral fractures in early postmenopausal women over a 10-year period.

A vertebral artery dissection is a possible cause of stroke in young and middle‐aged adults without risk factors for cerebrovascular disease. It often occurs spontaneously for no particular reason, ...

A computed tomography angiography (CTA), however, shows occlusion of the left vertebral artery from a possible dissection. The basilar artery is clear on imaging. Laboratory tests are unremarkable.

We could not exclude all papers using "clinical history consistent with dissection" as a diagnostic criterion, because one would anticipate that all cases diagnosed as dissection had at least some ...