Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury HPE 101 February 22‚ 2010 The anterior cruciate ligament‚ or ACL‚ is one of four major knee ligaments. The ACL is critical to knee stability‚ and people who injure their ACL often complain of symptoms of their knee giving-out from under them. Therefore‚ many patients who sustain an ACL tear opt to have surgical treatment of this injury. An ACL tear is most often a sports-related injury. ACL tears can also occur during rough play‚ mover vehicle collisions‚
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“Write your injuries in dust‚ your benefits in marble”‚ Benjamin Franklin stated. It was a Tuesday night late winter in Austin at Westwood High School. Tonight was the night we competed with one of district rivals the Westwood Warriors‚ and where both teams would put everything on the line in order to win the game hoping to better the chances of securing a state playoff spot. The game remained equal at 0 to 0 till the second half‚ where we finally with 10 minutes left in the game took the lead. The
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Both reading and watching the real deal of the play “Gruesome Playground Injuries” written by Rajiv Joseph were two very different experiences for me. I felt that while I was watching the play‚ there was a closer link between Doug and Kayleen‚ and they were more alike in a sense which brought them closer. As I had stated in my play response for this particular play‚ “It was almost like the two found solace in knowing their pain was for each other‚ as if every time they did some type of harm to
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Anything that our brain controls could be altered either temporarily or permanently . Brain injury kills more individuals ‚ under the age of twenty ‚ than any other cause combined . Brain injury caused by head trauma is the greatest killer under the age of fortyfive and the greatest cause of disability in people under fortyfour
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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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an injury on 08/01/16. The patient was instructed to attach a large 60-pound filter tank with a pump onto the hitch of the truck. As the patient was unloading the tank‚ the patient lost her grip on the top edge of the tank‚ which weighed greater than a 100 pounds. As a result‚ it struck the top of her head‚ which made her unconscious. She also complained of excruciating pain in the back‚ bilateral shoulders‚ right hand‚ neck‚ and head. The patient was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury with
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healthcare setting. Nurses constantly deal with possible injury from lifting a patient‚ exposure to blood borne pathogens‚ and experiencing fatigue‚ along with emotional stress. One type of hazard that has been an issue in the healthcare setting involving nurses is the exposure of needles causing needle stick injuries. Needle stick injuries can be defined as an incident involving used or non-used needles that penetrate the skin. These types of injuries usually cause harm with the exposure to blood and other
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Hundreds of college football players get hurt every year; most are sidelined for just a couple of weeks. Some players‚ however‚ lose their entire season and even careers to just one injury. When a player is not able to play the entire season‚ they may lose their scholarship. Standing on a football field’s sideline with an injury is one of the worst feelings a player can have. Normally‚ teams only have one or two players who can start at a position. Knowing which positions get hurt the most would be
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If you’ve suffered a catastrophic injury for which another person or organization can be found liable‚ you may want to contact an accident injury attorney to determine whether you should pursue an injury claim. But how can you determine whether another party might be held liable? Polinsky Law Group LLC‚ a Hartford law firm with over 30 years of experience in personal injury law‚ shares a few tips to determine whether you can file a catastrophic injury case under Connecticut law. How Do I Know If
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All people do not deal with traumatic brain injuries the same in the way that it takes people a different amount of time to recover than others and that it effects the patient’s qualities that they had prior to the injury differently. Traumatic brain injuries are common and they disable 150 million- 200 million people per year which is the leading cause of disability in people under 40 years old by injuring the frontal and temporal lobes. Recovery times are different for different people (most people
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