ObjectiveTo study the characteristics of the relationship between injury and disease in foren-sic identification cases of cervical trauma with cervical vertebra degeneration, and to explore the prob-lems about how to identify the participation rates of injury and disease using the clinical information, forensic examination and imaging examination.MethodsSeventeen forensic identification cases of cervi-cal trauma with cervical vertebra degeneration were collected. The age distributions, injury formations, injury severities and imaging findings of these cases were analyzed and the relationship between injury and disease was evaluated comprehensively.ResultsMiddle-aged and elderly were common in 17 cases and every case was involved with intervertebral disc herniation. The main reasons of injuries were hy-perextension. The degree of injury severity and vertebra degeneration were graded according to the imag-ing findings. The participation rates of injury and disease were also calculated comprehensively.Conclu-sionThe forensic identification cases of cervical trauma with cervical vertebra degeneration should be evaluated with clinical information, forensic examination and imaging finding.