A Chance fracture is a type of spinal injury. Chance fractures are also known as seat belt fractures. This is because they’re commonly caused by lap belt-style seat belts during car accidents.

This can result in a Chance fracture, also known as a flexion-distraction injury. Symptoms of a Chance fracture include moderate to severe back pain that worsens when you move. If the fracture ...

spinal elongation with distraction as centric elongation, but frequently axial eccentric elongation and a flexion or extension injury; (2) torsion or axial spinal rotation, (3) segmental ...

The head, however, freely jerks forward (forward flexion), which can produce a distraction or shearing injury to the posterior elements of the vertebrae. Hubbard and Downing designed a device that ...

"With flexion distraction therapy ... "There is no need for a patient to have suffered a particular injury to benefit from this treatment. In fact, simple age often causes the dehydration and ...