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    Football Football needs to be safer because it is a sport filled with injury and the injuries could affect them for the rest of their life. What i want to happen is they need to make football a little safer. And they need to also make it so if you get injured you get your contract cut. And if they were to do that it would make it more like if i get injured i could lose my job so it makes they more careful. I also think that there team would be disappointed in them. Football needs to be safer because

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    OSTEOARTHRITIS

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    The frictional resistance of normal joints is the cartilage layer to absorb the shock associated with joint use. When weight is loaded onto the joint‚ the cartilage layer compresses. Once the weight is removed‚ the cartilage rebounds to its original dimensions. The articular cartilage is firmly attached to its underlying subchondral bone by a subchondral plate. This allows the subchondral plate to act as a shock absorber‚ which protects the joint from applied stresses. A thin layer of calcified cartilage

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    bone to the next to give protection and keep the joint aligned. Between each bone and the next is a disc which is a shock absorber. Each disc consists of a soft semi fluid centre part‚ the nucleus‚ which is surrounded by a tough and fibrous outer coating‚ the annulus. The nuclear material moves around within the disc allowing the disc to alter their shape and act as shock absorbers. There are seven cervical vertebrae‚ which together make up the skeletal structure of the neck. These protect the spinal

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    sat at a table during the five-minute sessions‚ which involved active or passive music stimulation or no music stimulation. The patients had either pressure devices on the table which could be activated with a simple push of their hand‚ mini shock absorber devices on the back of their hand which activated when clapping‚ or vibration devices on that that could be activated by tapping on the table. In the response-related

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    salts. Occupies the space between the middle and inner layer of the meninges. It also circulates through cavities in both the brain and a canal in the center of the spinal chord. It has three functions: - Protection: CSF acts as a shock absorber‚ cushioning any blows or shocks the CNS may sustain. Support: CSF supports the brain. Brain is suspended in the cranium and floats in the fluid that surrounds it. Transport: During its circulation‚ it takes nutrients to the cells of the brain and the spinal

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    Mountain Bikes It has been a decade in the making‚ but the mountain bike has become a passion for many people. Along with this passion it has also become the most environmental way to get from point A to B. It has gone through a very intense evolution process over the past decade. It all started with some guys from California who took their bikes out for a ride on their day off‚ they modified their bikes and turned a hobby of theirs into a worldwide phenomenon. The mountain bike’s rapid increase

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    are more based upon spouse compatibility and the idea of being in love‚ Japanese marriages differ greatly‚ as most of them are arranged. Mr. Torida‚ a Japanese cattle farmer‚ when asked if he loved his wife of 33 years‚ responded in a way that would shock most couples living here in the United States‚ "Yeah‚ so-so‚ I guess. She’s like air or water; you couldn’t live without it‚ but most of the time‚ you’re not conscious of its existence." But with unparalleled statistics on family and marriage in Japan

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    Types of Joints

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    Some examples of these include the hips‚ wrists and elbows and shoulders. Movements that these joints allow are flexion and extension‚ and rotational movement.  The components of synovial joints include cartilage to reduce friction and absorb shock‚ synovial fluid to lubricate the joints‚ synovial membrane which produces this fluid‚ tendon which joins the muscle to the bone and ligament which joins bones to bones. There are many different types of joint which permit different amounts of movement

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    humorous to lesser known ones like the mandible or clavicle. However‚ the joints in the skeleton are also part of the musculoskeletal system. These joints are made up of a lot of parts. All joints in the body contain cartilage which acts as a shock absorber to stop the bones hitting one other and being worn down which could cause very bad skeleton disorders in later life. Other key parts of joints are ligaments (which join bone to bone to keep the structure of the joint) and tendons (which join muscle

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    meniscectomy which simply means that there is torn cartilage in the left knee along with softening and/or breakdown of the tissue that lines the kneecap(platella).Post-op shows that during surgery the crescent shaped posterior horn that acts like a shock absorber was not able to be repaired. Also the tissues that aligns the kneecap remained at grade 2 if the grade increased it would make the condition worse. 2. IV of Fluids She is to receive an iv of 900 cc’s of crystalliod‚ the most. Common is saline

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