The puck hit below Gomez's helmet, on his upper neck.
A 2009 injury to the vertebrae in his upper neck affected his left hand, which means he can't drum again without learning a completely new technique.
When pressed against the upper neck or throat, the vibrations facilitate the transfer of sound into the throat and oral cavity.
In February 2016, the neurosurgeon Ralph Mobbs in Australia placed two 3D-printed cervical vertebrae, made of titanium, in the upper neck of a patient whose cancer tumour was slowly compressing his brain stem and spinal cord.
Upper neck loads in the sagittal-plane were also measured.
In elderly patients with episodic TTH, no significant differences in PPT scores at the upper neck were detected [23].
c Clear cells (H&E, original magnification × 100) Fig. 4 a Intraoperative photograph of resection of the alveolar ridge and bilateral upper neck dissection.
Involvements of the temple, upper neck and rarely the entire face ipsilaterally to the affected ear have also been reported [2, 12, 16].
Six criteria – peak upper neck shear force, peak upper neck moment, peak retraction, the neck injury criterion (NIC) and two normalized neck injury criteria (Nij and Nkm) – exhibited graded responses that were most sensitive to the average acceleration of the collision pulse.
The goal of this study was to precisely detail the relationship between the spinal accessory nerve (SAN) and the internal jugular vein (IJV) in the upper neck, specifically at the level of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle.
There is no indication of feathering on the upper neck and head, however.
