10 boxers die in the ring each year. Boxers put their health and even their lives at stake every time they choose to compete in a boxing match ("Common Boxing Injuries & Prevention | iSport.com"). Short Term Injuries While boxing‚ injuries that can last anywhere from one day to a few months occur on a regular basis. Most short term injuries do
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Sports Injuries: An Annotated Bibliography Sports have been around since the olympics in 790 B.C.‚ yet only recently has the affects of these sports on our body been addressed. Dr. Bennet Omalu brought attention to the NFLs injuries like no other in 2002‚ when he discovered that the former football star Mike Webster‚ the Pittsburgh Steelers championship center‚ had a degenerative brain disease due to constant head trauma(1). Since the discovery other sports‚ such as rodeo for example‚ have shown
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Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury 1.COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) : While severe and moderate traumatic head and brain injuries often mandate head CT‚ several clinical scales require specific criteria in determining the need for neuroimaging after a mild TBI. These include the New Orleans Criteria (NOC) and the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR).(45) Both are relatively straight forward and use seven criteria readily obtained in the setting and evaluation of mild TBI. A head-to-head comparison
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·Review· Combination treatment with chondroitinase ABC in spinal cord injury—breaking the barrier Rong-Rong Zhao‚ James W Fawcett Brain Repair Centre‚ University of Cambridge‚ UK Corresponding author: James W Fawcett. E-mail: jf108@cam.ac.uk © Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences‚ CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 After spinal cord injury (SCI)‚ re-establishing functional circuitry in the damaged central nervous
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brain to our body and vice versa. Injuries to the spinal cord often come with very severe symptoms. In Allen’s case a 30 feet fall is sure to bring many consequence’s. As mention Allen’s heart rate and blood pressure fall. Which might strike as odd. This is not the response that’s expected. This is most likely due to the type of injury. Spinal cord injuries can have some unique effects. Such conditions include neurogenic shock. Patients with spinal cord injuries can get this type of shock (Rob Orman)
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Phineas Gage is considered to be one of the severe brain injuries. Gage suffered from personality changes after the brain injury. Gage was injured when excavating rocks to create a path for railroad track. Gage and other employees were injured by rail roads during the construction work. Gage was later treated after the accident as he his brain had been damaged. The accident caused damaged to brain structures and doctors argued that Gage started behaving differently after the accident (Damasio‚ Grabowski
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DOI: 07/07/2015. This is a 55-year-old male scrap metal grader who sustained a work related injury on his right elbow‚ thoracic spine‚ cervical spine‚ and lumbar spine when he was ejected from a container bin. Patient is a diagnosed with cervical sprain‚ cervical radiculopathy‚ thoracic sprain‚ lumbar sprain‚ lumbar radiculopathy‚ right shoulder sprain‚ right wrist‚ and right hand sprain. MRI of lumbar spine without contrast dated 10/14/15 revealed T12 compression fracture‚ chronic; degenerative
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Researchers at the VA Boston Healthcare System found that 87 out of 91 deceased former NFL football players showed signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). A concussion is an injury that disrupts the normal functioning of the brain. Your brain is surrounded by spinal fluid to cushion it from your hard skull. If you are hit hard your brain may hit your skull and become injured. There may be no visible signs of a concussion at all. The symptoms of a concussion vary from each person. Some may
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The Comeback of Career Ending Injuries The novel Bleachers by John Grisham encompasses numerous dramatic incidents one being the career ending knee injury of All-American quarterback Neely Crenshaw. In this sparked a curiosity and posed the question: How was it that Neely couldn’t continue his career after surgery and rehab? After inspecting this abnormality this query was broken down to three portions. The injury itself‚ the surgery‚ and finally rehabilitation. According to the novel‚ Neely
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world bring‚ some horrific injuries occur due to the competiveness of each participant. The human body can only take so much‚ and seems like a big target when competition is involved between two or more teams. An injury that has evolved the most out of all the injuries that can occur to someone is the concussion. According to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association‚ concussions in athletes is becoming the most common injury found compared to some other
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