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When Walking Hurts: What You Can Do About Leg Pain
• Pain • • Trauma & Injuries • May 29 08
Walking often tops the list of good ways to get exercise. But walking isn’t easy for everyone. A number of conditions can cause leg…
Pill ingredient could prevent brain damage after head injury
• Brain • • Neurology • • Trauma & Injuries • Apr 30 08
A common component of the contraceptive pill (progesterone) could improve the neurologic outcome for patients with severe head injuries, according to a study published…
Counseling Trauma Victims Causes Secondary Trauma
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 22 08
Hearing repeated stories of suffering from trauma victims causes serious psychological stress in clinical social workers, a new Geisinger-led study suggests.
Safe and Sound?
• Infections • • Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Mar 06 08
It is no secret—MRSA kills. It is also no secret that MRSA is a huge ongoing obstacle facing all health-care professionals; orthpaedic surgeons are…
Sex Matters: From Sports to Life
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Trauma & Injuries • Mar 05 08
We know men and women are different on the outside, but the differences on the inside are astronomical, as well. Today, orthopaedic surgeons are…
Whiplash May Produce Delayed Jaw Pain
• Pain • • Trauma & Injuries • Aug 16 07
One in three people exposed to whiplash trauma is at risk of developing delayed TMJ symptoms that may require treatment, according to research published…
Passengers, not just mobile phones, contribute to road accidents
• Public Health • • Trauma & Injuries • May 22 07
The new study, by The George Institute for International Health, was designed to determine the risk of a crash associated with passenger carriage compared…
US soldiers in Iraq fighting drug-resistant bacteria after injuries
• Infections • • Trauma & Injuries • May 16 07
US soldiers in Iraq do not carry the bacteria responsible for difficult-to-treat wound infections found in military hospitals treating soldiers wounded in Iraq, according…
Study takes next step—Why women suffer more knee injuries
• Gender: Female • • Trauma & Injuries • Mar 07 07
Female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer knee injuries during their careers than males, and now researchers may be closer…
Overuse sports injuries widespread in kids
• Children's Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 15 07
With child athletes becoming increasingly competitive and training more rigorous at younger ages, orthopedic physicians are seeing an alarming rise in sports injuries simply…
Facial injuries a risk for soccer players
• Trauma & Injuries • Oct 19 06
Chipped teeth and a broken nose may sound like boxing war wounds, but amateur soccer players are at risk of such injuries as well,…
Simple test spots athletes at risk of ankle sprains
• Trauma & Injuries • Jul 26 06
A simple test - basically standing on one leg with eyes closed - can help identify whether or not an athlete is at risk…
Exercise Better Than Ergonomics to Treat Upper-Body Work Injuries
• Trauma & Injuries • Jul 23 06
Many conservative methods used to treat work-related complaints of the upper body have only limited effectiveness, according to an updated systematic review by Arianne…
Training may cut female soccer players’ knee risks
• Trauma & Injuries • Jul 03 06
Adding injury-prevention exercises to soccer practice may help prevent a common knee ligament injury in female athletes, study findings suggest.
That Conk on the Head Could Be a Concussion
• Trauma & Injuries • Jun 28 06
You’re playing a pick-up game of basketball and get hit in the head with the ball. The jolt leaves you feeling slightly dizzy and…
Apartment Dwellers Face Higher Injury Risk
• Trauma & Injuries • May 09 06
Compared to people who live in detached or single-family homes, apartment dwellers experience substantially higher rates of injury, according to a new study from…
For some with partial spinal cord injury, two different therapies show positive results
• Trauma & Injuries • Feb 28 06
Body weight-supported treadmill training isn’t more effective than conventional mobility rehabilitation for restoring movement to those with partial spinal cord injury, according to a…
Injury risks posed by paper shredders
• Trauma & Injuries • Feb 07 06
As our environments change over time with technology, pediatric emergency specialists are continuously challenged to observe possible trends and prevent more injuries by educating…
Cheerleading Injuries Found to Be Significant Source of Injury to Girls
• Trauma & Injuries • Jan 03 06
First-of-its-kind research conducted by staff of the Center for Injury Research and Policy in the Columbus Children’s Research Institute at Columbus Children’s Hospital…
Wrist guards don’t prevent all snowboard injuries
• Trauma & Injuries • Jul 21 05
Snowboarders who use wrist guards to prevent hand injuries may unwittingly increase their risk of injuring their elbow, upper arm or shoulder, new study…
Vitamin D does not prevent fractures in the elderly
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 27 05
Giving vitamin D and calcium supplements to elderly patients who have Osteoporosis does not prevent them breaking bones, researchers said on Thursday.
Exercise as good as surgery for shoulder injury
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 26 05
Surgery is not superior to graded exercise training for treatment of rotator cuff injury, according to results of a comparative trial conducted in Denmark.
…Soccer players’ injury rates tracked in British study
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 21 05
Soccer or association football - not matter what you call it, players of the game are more likely to suffer injuries than gymnasts, tennis…
Kids risk head injury on the golf course
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 13 05
As the ranks of young golfers grow, hospitals may start seeing more head injuries in children and teens caused by swinging clubs…
A dash of onion halts bone loss in rats
• Trauma & Injuries • Apr 07 05
Onions can spice up your meals - and maybe strengthen your bones, preliminary study findings suggest.
Investigators from the University of Bern in Switzerland…