Cervical vertebrae protect the spinal cord. When the bones move, the spinal cord underneath does too. Spinal cords are not meant to shift about. Sometimes, when exposed to too much force, they do not spring back into place. Instead, the bones cut, sever, or slice the spinal cord just underneath them. My fingers tell me the bone is so far out of place that even if the world’s best neck surgeon were here in our little ER, he or she could do nothing.
