Need for Greater Sports Injury Prevention Most know how important it is to be mentally healthy while participating in any competition. But in sports competition‚ it may just be more important to be physically healthy in order to compete at a productive‚ truly competitive level. As the competition in sports from pee-wee football leagues all the way through professional and international athletics increases‚ so too do the amount of injuries and magnitude of these injuries. Due to a more competitive
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There are four common themes when looking at cell injury and death. These themes include adenosine triphosphate depletion‚ oxygen derived free radicals‚ calcium alterations‚ and defects in membrane permeability. Cells are unable to properly function if they lack certain important cell factors. ATP depletion A cell needs mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate in order to function properly which is why when a cell is injured or dying‚ a common theme seen is lost or decreased ATP. ATP loss or a deduction
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Instructor: Dr. Daniel Kifle June 16‚ 2014 A Case of Spinal Cord Injury 1. Describe the functional anatomy of the spinal cord using the following terms: white matter‚ gray matter‚ tracts‚ roots and spinal nerves. The spinal cord consists of a superficial White matter and a deep Gray matter. The white matter consists of myelinated axons‚ which form nerve tracts and the Gray matter consists of neuron cell bodies‚ dendrites and axons. The white matter in each half of the spinal
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My first injury is what happened in May of this year (2016). I had dropped a 8-foot bench on my foot after cleaning up the lodge that my class was staying in. I had gone to Urgent Care and they x-rayed my foot as a bruise to the bone with a possible hairline fracture. My foot was to swollen to see if it has a fracture yet and the doctor had told me that within a week it could be seen. The injury is on the middle of my left foot. You can still tell it is injured and is still a bit swollen. Along with
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Male wrestler‚ from high school league‚ arrives at the PT clinic with an MD prescription for treatment. He was diagnosed with a grade II MCL knee sprain yesterday. A medial collateral ligament (MCL) is known as common knee ligament injury‚ additional with low-grade sprains often going unreported. MCL sprain often occurs for an athletic population for both contact and non-contact sports athletes. There are two different parts to MCL; superficial MCL and deep MCL. There are no firm attachments or definable
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DOI: 9/1/2012. The patient is a 42-year-old female referral coordinator who sustained a work-related injury to her bilateral wrists‚ right index finger and right elbow due to repetitive typing. As per office notes dated 6/8/16‚ the patient has not returned to work. She complains of bilateral hand numbness and tingling with grinding and popping upon flexion and extension of the index and middle fingers of the right hand. She complains of bilateral extensor forearm and lateral elbow pain‚ made worse
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DOI: 9/4/2014. The patient is a 40-year old male carpenter who sustained a work-related injury to his low back and left shoulder after lifting a heavy beam at work. Patient is status post lumbar ESI at L5-S1 per procedure report dated 05/13/15. Per the PT daily treatment note dated 0/09/14‚ the IW has attended 6 sessions for the back. Per the AME done on 11/13/15 by Dr. Warbritton‚ Whole Person Impairment (WPI) rating for the back is 8%. Future medical care includes independent strengthening
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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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DOI: 5/20/2002. Patient is a 43-year-old female shipping clerk who sustained a work-related injury to her back and left knee due to falling while climbing down a ladder. As per OMNI entry‚ patient was diagnosed with status post left knee surgery on 12/15/2009; status post lumbosacral fusion on 10/31/2006; lumbar disc displacement; lumbosacral neuritits/radiculitis; and internal derangement of the left knee. Per progress notes dated 9/27/2016‚ patient complained of locking of knee and lots of pain
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My dads injury At 13 years old you don’t really think about losing a parent or death‚ but one sunny day i did. The moment i picked up my phone and hearing my dad could die at any moment because he broke his neck. I was devastated at 13 years old. As my body was breaking down knowing my dad could die‚ nothing felt the same. My mom drove me to the accident in Lynn‚ MA to my Aunt’s house. I saw my dad laying there next to a Pine tree. The look in his eyes looked devastated they were watery and
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