Vertebral Artery Occlusion Complicating Yoga Exercises
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 34 (9) , 574-575
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1977.00500210076015
Abstract
• Vertebral artery occlusion developed in a young adult shortly after he had performed neck manipulations during yoga movements. Yoga exercises are a rare cause of acute medullary or cerebellar infarction.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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