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    Sidney Crosby is suffering from a soft-tissue neck injury. Soft-tissue injuries involve tears or sprains of muscles, tendons, or ligaments. The neck region consists of seven vertebrae separated by shock-absorbing discs and connected by muscles and ligaments. Violent hits can cause the neck muscles and ligaments to tear through excessive flexion or extension of the vertebrae.

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    Sidney Crosby is suffering from a soft-tissue neck injury. Soft-tissue injuries involve tears or sprains of muscles, tendons, or ligaments. The neck region consists of seven vertebrae separated by shock-absorbing discs and connected by muscles and ligaments. Violent hits can cause the neck muscles and ligaments to tear through excessive flexion or extension of the vertebrae.

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    Sidney Crosby is suffering from a soft-tissue neck injury. Soft-tissue injuries involve tears or sprains of muscles, tendons, or ligaments. The neck region consists of seven vertebrae separated by shock-absorbing discs and connected by muscles and ligaments. Violent hits can cause the neck muscles and ligaments to tear through excessive flexion or extension of the vertebrae.

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    Sidney Crosby is suffering from a soft-tissue neck injury. Soft-tissue injuries involve tears or sprains of muscles, tendons, or ligaments. The neck region consists of seven vertebrae separated by shock-absorbing discs and connected by muscles and ligaments. Violent hits can cause the neck muscles and ligaments to tear through excessive flexion or extension of the vertebrae.

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    Specialists tending to NHL player Sidney Crosbys injuries are now saying hes su ering from a soft-tissue neck

    injury. So what exactly is a soft-tissue injury? Heres a look at the neck and how it can be injured.

    Soft-tissue injuries
    Muscles Vertebrae

    IN MINUTES

    News and events visually

    Anatomy of the neck


    The neck region of the spinal column is called the cervical spine.

    Hyperextension

    Hyperexion

    The seven cervical bones are called vertebrae and are numbered C1 to C7.

    C1 The vertebrae are held in C2 place by muscles and C3 ligaments that provide C4 support and enable movement of your head. C5 C6 C7

    Muscles, tendons and bone


    Discs Fascia is a Saran Wrap type of tissue that covers bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and organs. Spinal cord Muscle is made up of tiny long bers called myobrils. Each one of these myobrils is covered with fascia.

    A soft-tissue injury can be a sprain or tear of muscles, tendons, or ligaments or disc herniation.

    Protected within the bones of the cervical spine are the spinal cord, nerves, and blood vessels. Intervertebral disc Each bone is separated and cushioned by shock-absorbing discs.

    Vertebral body

    Bone

    Violent hits, such as those sustained in hockey, can cause excessive exion and extension of ligaments and muscles in the neck, which can cause the ligaments and muscles that are attached to the vertebrae to tear.

    The spinal nerves exit the spinal column through holes, called foraminae, on both sides of the vertebrae.

    Tendon Tendons attach muscle to bone. Through injury, these bres can separate from the bone.

    Fascia The muscle itself is covered in fascia along with the tendon that attaches itself to the bone.

    Muscle bre

    NORMAL Cross-section of muscle bres

    EXCESSIVE STRETCH Torn muscle bres

    SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY OUELLETTE/QMI AGENCY

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