May 31, 2008
A study to describe the mechanisms of anterior cruciate ligament injury in basketball based on videos of injury situations showed the following:
There was contact at the assumed time of injury in 11 of the 39 cases (5 male and 6 female players). Four of these cases were direct blows to the knee, [...]
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Retrospective review of medical records was done to examine basketball-related injuries among adults presenting to ambulatory settings in the United States. An annual average of 507,000 adults were treated in an ambulatory care setting for injuries related to playing basketball. The majority of these patients sought treatment in physicians' offices. Females [...]
May 18, 2008
There is limited research on the connection between the Holocaust and chronic pain, despite evidence suggesting that medical and psychological sequelae are common in survivors. The goals of this study were: (1) to define Holocaust survivors' (n = 33) chronic pain characteristics as manifested 50 years after the war, (2) to compare survivors [...]
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The effects of the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar that killed over 100,000 people, with displacement of over 2 million people prompted my search of the effects of natural disasters in the causation of musculoskeletal pain and psychological trauma.
The effects of the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar that killed over 100,000 people, with [...]
Sunday, May 04, 2008
A recent report in the Lancet medical journal reports that in a survey of 3,982 Americans, 29% of men and 27% women reported feeling some pain. Those who have higher levels of pain are usually those with lower income and less education working in manual labor and other blue-collar jobs. About $60 [...]
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