If a patient has been walking around an MVA seen for 10 minutes, and claim spinal injury they can't attribute that damage to you not performing a standing takedown.
I've had patients walk to the stretcher and lay down as well as walking into the ambulance.
My agency can knock me for doing it improperly, but in a court of law you can't prove negligence on that basis.
An Attorney will find a way to prove anything, just because you have been walking around with no deficits does not mean there is no damage to the vertabre, the chord? Different story. Have loose or jagged ends of the broken vertabre cause damage after asking the patient to do some type of extensive bending manuver like lying down and I would say yes you are at fault.