Transcranial Doppler for Vertebral artery by Prof.Mohanty and Dr.Anandan of www.mtfi.net

The vertebral artery screening test is performed before the cervical spine manipulations. The vertebral artery gets compromised during the cervical rotations.The opinion of the researchers varies i.e some say the vertebral artery is compromised in opposite side rotation and some say in same side rotation.
We did the real time transcranial doppler insonating the vertebral artery near the mastoid process to check for the compromise of the haemodynamics in ipsilateral and contralateral rotations. As this is real time we could measure the haemodynamics as it is without any assumptions. We found more compromise in same side rotation.

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Education

Tags:

• Vertebral Artery
• Transcranial doppler
• Cervical manipulation.