ST. CLOUD, Minn. — As bad as the injury is to Alex Kupka, it could have been much worse. Kupka, a 17-year-old forward from Trnava, Slovakia, suffered a broken C2 vertebrae when he was checked from ...

Dan Atherton is in Shrewsbury hospital after fracturing two vertebrae earlier this week. Atherton had been riding dirt jumps at Llanfyllin, United Kingdom, on Tuesday when he sustained the injury ...

St. Cloud Blizzard forward back on the ice after broken vertebrae Alex Kupka, an 18-year-old from Trnava, Slovakia, skate on the ice with his North American Hockey League junior team on Wednesday.

The description, gruesome as it is, conjures images of Clint Eastwood in a movie western. When people suffer a break to the C2 vertebrae in their neck, it’s often called a “hangman’s fracture.” It is ...

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby skates during practice in Sunrise, Fla., Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Crosby skated with his teammates for the first time in more than a month on Friday but still has ...

We report a successful extensive transoral anterior decompression for an elderly patient with myelopathy and occipitalgia due to severe atlantoaxial vertical subluxation and posterior subluxation of ...