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Table 2 Mean travel for self-extrication with and without collar application

From: Maximum movement and cumulative movement (travel) to inform our understanding of secondary spinal cord injury and its application to collar use in self-extrication

 

Mean cervical AP travel (mm)

Mean cervical LR travel (mm)

Mean cervical Roll travel (degree)

Mean cervical Pitch travel (degree)

Mean cervical Yaw travel (degree)

Collar application

4.9

2.2

6.5

13.7

20.1

Self-extrication with collar

4.7

4.8

14.0

13.1

12.2

Self-extrication no collar

9.4

6.8

20.1

26.9

26.7

Differencea

− 0.1

− 0.1

− 0.5

0.1

− 5.5

  1. aSelf-extrication with no collar—(Collar application + self-extrication with collar), a negative value indicates larger movement (travel) with collar application and subsequent self-extrication