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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damages. In personal injury cases‚ the injured party will attempt to receive compensation with the representation of a personal injury lawyer in order to recover from damages incurred. If anything goes wrong especially when it comes down to the law‚ the lawyers go strictly by the books. The best decision to makes is to stay out of trouble and not have any reason to have to go to court and possibly get punished because a wrong choice was made. “A tort is an act which causes injury and individuals who
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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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packs and medication Mechanism of injury - Process line worker conducting repeated upper limb tasks - Heavy (10kg) overhead lifting‚ repetitive transfer of 5-7kg boxes from waist to floor level for up to 2hr intervals‚ screwing bottle lids‚ quality control assessment and packing boxes. - Possible aggravation during household tasks i.e. cleaning‚ cooking and washing Observation Anxious about using (R) shoulder and protective against further injury Psychological & Pain Testing - OMPQ
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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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occurs where the supraspinatus tendon inserts into the humerus. The injury can be superficial or can involve the entire tendon. Degenerative conditions‚
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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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