Improve joint motion in the neck with one swift crack, and you can ostensibly remove the pain. Many of the freshly cracked crow about the relief they feel. Twenty-nine percent of those who see a ...

The Vertebral Arteries: The vertebral arteries are located in the back of the neck and they provide blood to posterior (back) regions of the brain. The vertebral arteries primarily supply blood to ...

Vertebral artery (VA) dissection caused by swinging a golf club is extremely rare, and the mechanism of the dissection has not been elucidated. A 39-year-old man suddenly felt sharp neck pain and ...

Los Angeles Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter tells PEOPLE that a chiropractor shifted May’s neck, tearing her left vertebral artery. The tear blocked blood flow to May’s brain and caused the ...

People with plaque in the blood vessels of their neck have a higher amount of tiny plastic particles in those vessels ...

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics -- minuscule bits of plastic -- compared to arteries free of ...

2, right vertebral artery), dilation, aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm, string and pearl sign] for VAD. A single author then extracted the data for these features for the manuscripts reporting on ...

Blood supply to the brain comes from four main vessels originating from the aortic arch: two vertebral arteries in the back of the neck and two carotid arteries in the front. Successful treatment of ...

These tears typically occur in car accidents or other forms of neck injury THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Strokes caused by an artery tear are landing five times as many Americans in ...

Cervical artery dissection (CeAD) incidence increased from 2005 to 2019, with the increase in admissions particularly high in older, Black, and Hispanic populations.

The researchers studied cases of spontaneous vertebral artery dissection (sVAD), a rupture of a blood vessel in the back of the neck that causes a stroke, with patients’ sleeping habits.