Mr. Black is a 44-year-old patient who presents to the clinic with complaints of neck pain that he thinks is from his job involving computer data entry
As the examiner, you are checking the range of motion in his neck and note that the greatest degree of cervical mobility is at: a. C1 to C2.
b. C2 to C3.
c. C3 to C4.
d. C4 to C5.
D
C4 to C5 and C5 to C6 are the cervical vertebrae with the greatest movement. The types of movement includes flexion, extension, and hyperflexion, as well as horizontal movements of lat-eral flexion and rotation.
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