chronic recurrent root neurapraxia

An injury of older football players due to compression of the nerve root in the intervertebral foramina 2º to hyperextension and ipsilateral deviation of the head and neck, often with foraminal stenosis and/or degenerative disk change in combination with developmental cervical stenosis
Diagnosis Spurling's manoeuvre

chronic recurrent root neurapraxia

Sports medicine An injury of older football players due to compression of the nerve root in the intervertebral foramina 2º to hyperextension and ipsilateral deviation of the head and neck, often with foraminal stenosis and/or degenerative disk change in combination with developmental cervical stenosis Diagnosis Spurling's maneuver