health that need to be focused on‚ injury being one of them. Injury comes in two forms‚ intentional and unintentional. With regard to intentional injury‚ self-harm and suicide have been classified as major public health issues. Everyone is affected by injury regardless of age‚ sex‚ race‚ or socioeconomic status. Injury is the leading cause of death for Americans ages one to 44‚ and it claims the lives of about 199‚800 people every year. More Americans die from injuries and violence than from any other
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understanding cell injury and cell death regardless of the injuring agent” (Heuther & McCance‚ 2012). Cellular injury arises when a cell is unable to sustain homeostasis. The injury can be reversed if the cell can recover from whatever damage was done but if it does not recover the cell will die. The three common forms of cell injury are hypoxic injury‚ free radicals and reactive oxygen species injury‚ and chemical injury. The most common form of cell injury is hypoxic injury‚ or hypoxia‚ the deficiency
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Traumatic Brain Injury or Head Injury A head injury occurs as a result of trauma to the scalp‚ skull or brain. Head injuries are classified as closed‚ in which there is no cut or laceration to the skin‚ or penetrating‚ in which the skin and/or bone of the skull is broken. Traumatic brain injuries range from mild (called mild traumatic brain injury) to severe. The symptoms of a head injury may occur immediately following trauma‚ or they may develop slowly over several hours or days. Specific types
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Physical factors are one the primary cause of injuries in sports and exercise for instance‚ a poor tackle in football‚ an awkward landing in gymnastics or poor warm-ups in sprinting. However‚ psychological researchers are continuing to show that thoughts‚ perceptions and aspects of personality may be linked to the incidence of injury. Stress and athletic injury Past research has seen the relationship between athletic injuries and psychological factors as essentially stress-related (1). In this
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The article “The Effect of Protective Headgear on Head Injuries and Concussions in Adolescent Football (Soccer) Players” by J. Scott Delaney‚ Ammar Al-Kashmiri‚ R. Drummond‚ and J. A. Correa‚ the authors examine the effectiveness of protective headgear in teenage athletes. For their study they focused on the Oakville Soccer Club in Oakville‚ Canada‚ using soccer players ages 12-17. The athletes were to fill out a questionnaire examining their 2006 season‚ asking information about concussions they
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Peitzman et al.‚ 2008‚ a plain-film radiograph (i.e.‚ skull x-ray studies) has limited indications in patients with blunt head injury. Plain films are sometimes indicated for penetrating injuries of the skull to determinate the course‚ location‚ or a number of gunshots or foreign body fragment‚ as well as possible depressed skull fragment. Patient with a significant head injury‚ history of loss of consciousness (LOC)‚ or postconcussive sequelae required immediate evaluation by CT scan. CT scan of the
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ending brain injury. Concussions with one another will probably follow. Concussions are a fatal head injury. Concussions can range from mild to severe. Concussions can disrupt the way the brain normally works. most people who have one concussions will have two concussions. This report will show about football related concussions. How do concussions happen? Concussions happen when there is repeated jolts or bumps to the head causing the brain to be bruised. Concussions can have a long term effect on
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years the increase of head injuries has drastically become more common. People do not know why‚ but some people believe this is true because the games have become way more intense and become more physical. According to the AANS there have been 8‚392 head injuries under the age of 14 reported in one year. This is scary because that means that there are about 32 serious head injuries per day in a soccer game or practice. This is an awful start because one serious head injury in one game could mean you
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2. Define the term policy. 3. Define the term procedure. 4. Why do Community Services Industry workers need to work within agency policy and procedures? Provide three (3) reasons. 5. Give five examples of areas that should be covered in a policy/procedure manual. 6. Define the term legislation. 7. Define the term statutory requirements? 8. Define the term regulatory requirements? tfrgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg 2. Define the term policy. 3. Define the
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Define the key term sinkhole‚ explain how a sinkhole forms‚ and give an example you researched. The text book defines sinkholes as “a depression produced in a region where soluble rock has been removed by groundwater.” According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection‚ sinkholes form in karst terrain mostly due to the collapse and erosion of surface sediments into underground cavities in the limestone bedrock. Karst is commonly used term referring to the characteristic terrain produced
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