Every four years in June a peculiar epidemic bursts into the worldview. Healthy young men, most with an elite level of physical fitness, are suddenly stricken down. The victims drop to the ground at ...

Spinal immobilization was first discussed in emergency medicine in the late 1960s, and by 1984, New York State protocol required the collar and backboard combination. An update in 2008 advised medics ...

A study analyzing the practice of spinal motion restriction (SMR) between 2009 and 2019 has been published in the July issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the ...

You’ve seen it in the movies and on TV: Someone hurt in a car wreck is strapped to a rigid backboard and rushed to the hospital by ambulance or aboard a rescue helicopter. That’s how firefighters, ...