tissues of the neck. This type of injury may result from: • Auto accidents. Rear-end collisions are the most common cause of whiplash. • Physical abuse or assault. Whiplash may also result from incidents of being punched or shaken. Whiplash is one of the injuries sustained in shaken baby syndrome. • Contact sports. Football tackles and other sports-related collisions can sometimes cause whiplash injuries. Signs and Symptoms They usually develop within 24 hours of the injury and may include: • Neck pain
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long. I respect all the nurses who have to skills to manage those wounds along with treating the patient with the upmost respect. Pressure injury is a termed defined as pressure placed on any skin surface‚ usually a bony prominence against a surface for long periods of time. There are many different risk factors that can predispose a person to a pressure injury like skin quality‚ incontinence‚ immobility‚ and nutrition along with other factors. People need to take care of their skin by bathing regularly
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concussion. What is a concussion? A concussion is a brain injury caused by a blow to the head or a violent shaking of the head and body. "The Centers for Disease control estimates more than 300‚000 sports-related concussions occur each year in the United States." (Article One) In teens‚ controversy has come to the point where adults ask: By law‚ a medical professional must sign off before an injured player can go back on the field. If head injuries (more specifically‚
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eds.‚ Fractures in the Elderly. Philadelphia‚ Lippincott-Raven 1998. Court-Brown CM‚ Garg A‚ McQueen MM. The epidemiology of proximal humeral fractures. Acta Orthop Scand. 2001;72:365-371. Curwin S. Shoulder Injuries. In Zachazewski JE‚ Magee DJ‚ Quillen WS‚ eds. Athletic Injuries and Rehabilitation. Philadelphia‚ 1996‚ WB Saunders. Goldman RT‚ Koval KJ‚ Cuomo F‚ Gallagher MA‚ Zuckerman JD. Functional outcome after humeral head replacement for acute three- and four-part proximal humeral fractures
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Healing the Injuries that Happen in Baseball For baseball players it is essential to stay healthy. One of the many reasons is that if a player is hurt for too long a period‚ he may lose his starting position. Though this is always in the forefront of a players mind‚ the first thing he should think about is healing his body so that he might continue his career. The most common injury to baseball players is tennis elbow and tennis elbow is only treated by having Tommy John’s surgery‚ which takes
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DOI: 11/24/2014. The patient is a 59-year-old male carpenter who sustained injury to his right arm/shoulder and right leg when he fell while from a ladder‚ amended to include the right wrist. Per OMNI‚ he had a complete tear of the supraspinatus tendon with retraction per MRI and underwent a rotator cuff tear surgery on 2/5/15. Based on the medical report dated 12/14/15‚ the patient is still having similar problems. He is having significant neck pain going down to the right arm with tingling sensation
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Colic is defined as abdominal pain. Having it known as pain it is not a diagnosis but it’s a clinical sign your horse is showing. Colic is a term for all forms of gastrointestinal conditions which cause pain. Even other causes of abdominal pain not involving the gastrointestinal tract. The most common forms of colic are gastrointestinal in nature and are most often related to colonic disturbance. There are a variety of different causes of colic‚ and having them range for minor to major to severe
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Up until 1947‚ it was believed that the Cambrian Explosion marked the first true abundance of multicellular life. However‚ this was discovered to be untrue after Sir Douglas Mawson and R.C. Sprigg mistakenly came across numerous "fossil jellyfish" in the Ediacara Hills while observing what was originally believed to be sandstones belonging to the lowest strata of the Cambrian. At first‚ these finding were dismissed as "fortuitous inorganic markings."(AAS Biographical Memoirs.) Several years later
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Abstract This paper explores the meaning of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and how it affects children and adolescents through their school years. The paper will first introduce what a traumatic brain injury can be‚ how it can be identified‚ and what the affects can be to the students. There will be two peer reviewed journals that speak on types of TBIs. The first article is based around information on Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)‚ where the second article focuses the impact of post-traumatic stress
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out social actions according to their largely practical interpretations of meaning about who and what is around them. This is known as reflexivity of accounts. The way the world is described is part of that world - the description is the reality (see Cuff‚ 1990‚ 185). An important concept is indexicality‚ from Charles Peirce and Y. Bar-Hillel‚ which means a token takes place in a meaningful context‚ and thus allows each person to place meaning according to context. Garfinkel uses indexicality and indexical
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