Staff writer Daniel Wood argues in his article‚ “LAPD shooting reignites debate: Are police cameras effective?” that body cameras are not a reliable source for justifying crimes. Wood claims that there is much more factors considered in justifying events such as police brutality‚ and video footage is only one of the many. In other words‚ Woods addresses today’s controversies of police brutality on African Americans and criticizes body cameras as an imprudent way to justify police brutality. In
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Antonio Smith Jr Gun Control Debate Gun control is a hot button issue that boils over whenever acts of gun violence occur. Citizens‚ lawmakers and gun lobbyists have been debating the issue of gun control for more than a century‚ and there has yet to be a definitive answer. Proponents of gun control don’t believe that state and federal gun control acts do enough‚ and gun rights advocates believe that the laws go too far. Opponents of gun control laws argue that Americans have the right to bear
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hospital pain-management clinic specialising in back pain A viability study for the proposed hiring of a trained acupuncture practitioner Prepared for: Pain management clinic specialling in back pain Prepared by: Iain McKay Toowoomba 27 SEPTEMBER 2013 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to make argument both for and against acupuncture when treating back pain. Acupuncture is a form of Chinese medicine. Acupuncture involves inserting needles into acupuncture point on the
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Sciatic Pain For years‚ sciatic pain has been closely associated with professional drivers. Sciatic pain originates in the lower back and travels down the leg. Studies have shown that sciatic pain in professional drivers is closely linked with whole-body-vibration (WBV). Whole-body-vibration is believed to cause sciatic pain because of the effect it has on the spinal system. The article published in Ergonomics shed light on the fact that whole-body-vibration has an effect on sciatic pain‚ but that
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DOI: 08/18/2007. Patient is a 53-year-old male registered nurse who sustained a work-related injury to his neck when he tried to pull a patient. Per OMNI‚ patient is diagnosed with back pain. IW was declared P & S in 2009. He is status post C5 to C6 fusion in 2005 and C3 to C5 anterior fusion in 2008. MRI of the cervical spine obtained on 10/29/14 showed postoperative changes from C3-6. At C6-7‚ there are mild degenerative disc space changes along with a broad- based disc bulge and some posterior
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tests can be divided between pain provocation tests and palpation tests. 1. Pain provocation tests According to (Hestboek and Leboef-Yde‚ 2000) pain provocation tests are deemed to be more reliable than palpation tests. This is mostly concerning inter-examiner reliability. The validity of these pain provocation tests has been argued by recent studies to be questionable. Studies by (Foley and Buschbacher‚ 2006) have confirmed these arguments through the injecting of the pain block in the Sacroiliac joint
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The shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) is defined as “a self-administered questionnaire consisting of items grouped into pain and disability subscales”. (2) The questionnaire is designed to calculate current shoulder pain and disability in an outpatient setting. The SPADI has progressed to being able to test mixed diagnoses such as Subacromial impingement syndrome‚ adhesive capsulitis and joint replacement surgery. There are two version’s used to score a patient’s pain and disability. In
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Nature and nurture debate Nature is how you are naturally‚ it’s your genetic inheritance and biology and nurture is your environmental and socioeconomic issues. Based on the David reamer story‚ he was born a boy but brought up to be a girl; however this failed due to nature taking over. Although David was dressed as a girl and brought up as a girl he still wanted to play with boys toys. This shows that nature played a big role in his life. From the beginning when David was born he obviously didn’t
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clinical information that was needed to address issues in relation to pain‚ acceptance‚ and the adjustments in a person’s life who is living with chronic pain. By obtaining the required research information‚ the social work intern co-facilitated a group called “ ACT for Chronic Pain.” This group is for Veterans who experience chronic pain. It is designed to help with acceptance of thoughts and feeling that go along with chronic pain while helping the Veterans live a life that is rich and meaningful
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THE HART-FULLER DEBATE It is important to consider‚ howbeit briefly‚ the academic exchanges between the proponents of legal positivism as represented by H.L.A. Hart and those of the natural law school represented by Lon Fuller. The gravamen of such academic discourse‚ usually tagged Hart-Fuller debate is to be found in the Harvard Law Review 1958. Curzon identifies the background of the debate as the atrocities committed by Germany during the 2nd World War. Under the National-Socialist regime
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