Traumatic brain injury has entered the public's consciousness as the silent, signature wound brought back by many of our military warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. But such injuries don't only happen in warfare, they happen to civilians too. Think car crashes, a slip and fall, two football...
I need some advice by mature individuals only please. I was hurt on my neighbors property during a sledding accident last winter. Here is what happened, the snow was heavy, my son didn't have enough weight behind him to get going down the hill. I decided to start a path for him. While going down...
Last season, the New York Giants almost certainly ran more three-safety looks than any other defense; it was a way to spackle over depth issues among the team's cornerbacks, and keep coverage at a fairly high level. It worked, and the G-men finished third in Football Outsiders' defense-adjusted...
When we last left the Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings they had just completed the Ryan Smyth trade, but one hangup from the deal was the discovery that Colin Fraser had a fracture in his foot, along with a cyst and would need surgery that would put him out of action for four months...
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When it came to Mason Raymond after Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final, the first concern for the Vancouver Canucks and GM Mike Gillis wasn't penalties or suspensions or anything of the like — it was whether a player with a broken back was going to lose his ability to walk.
"Initially...
I have a rotator cuff injury in both my shoulders. It's not a tear. It doesn't hurt when I touch it, but it does start to bother me when I use it for extended period of time. This is how my golfer's elbow tendonitis started I don't want it to get worse. I'm taking ibuprofen and putting ice on it...
I have a rotator cuff injury in both my shoulders. It's not a tear. It doesn't hurt when I touch it, but it does start to bother me when I use it for extended period of time. This is how my golfer's elbow tendonitis started I don't want it to get worse. I'm taking ibuprofen and putting ice on it...
I have a rotator cuff injury in both my shoulders. It's not a tear. It doesn't hurt when I touch it, but it does start to bother me when I use it for extended period of time. This is how my golfer's elbow tendonitis started I don't want it to get worse. I'm taking ibuprofen and putting ice on it...
I have a rotator cuff injury in both my shoulders. It's not a tear. It doesn't hurt when I touch it, but it does start to bother me when I use it for extended period of time. This is how my golfer's elbow tendonitis started I don't want it to get worse. I'm taking ibuprofen and putting ice on it...
A hero just eights weeks ago around UFC 126, Jon Jones is feeling the backlash of being on top. The UFC's light heavyweight champ has been battered on the Internet by many fans and MMA media types for backing out a proposed title defense against teammate Rashad Evans.
Jones was expected to...
On 11 May, dozens of countries around the world kick off the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. From New Zealand to Mexico and the Russian Federation to South Africa, governments are committing to take new steps to save lives on their roads. The Decade seeks to prevent road...
The Chicago Bulls are both lucky and good. In Game 1 of their first round series against the Indiana Pacers, the BUlls were down 10 points with three and a half minutes remaining but went on a 16-1 run to end the game. The Pacers were giving the Bulls another hard push in Game 2 — even though...
The Chicago Bulls are both lucky and good. In Game 1 of their first round series against the Indiana Pacers, the BUlls were down 10 points with three and a half minutes remaining but went on a 16-1 run to end the game. The Pacers were giving the Bulls another hard push in Game 2 — even though...
Another NBA playoffs, another Andrew Bynum knee injury. This time, Andrew Bynum hurt his knee on Tuesday night in a game against the San Antonio Spurs. While running down the court, the center for the Los Angeles Lakers stepped on DeJuan Blair’s foot and hyperextended his troublesome right knee...
i have to do a presentation on a poster explaining and depicting a topic that directly relates to the realm of sports medicine.
ex.
-Description of a specific injury
-An anatomical summary of a method for treating an injury
-A unique and different method for treating an injury
-Description and...
i have to do a presentation on a poster explaining and depicting a topic that directly relates to the realm of sports medicine.
ex.
-Description of a specific injury
-An anatomical summary of a method for treating an injury
-A unique and different method for treating an injury
-Description and...
A synthetic derivative of the curry spice turmeric, made by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dramatically improves the behavioral and molecular deficits seen in animal models of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Two new studies suggest that the novel...
Results from a study published in the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) show that powerful imaging techniques - positron emission tomography (PET) fused with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - are helping researchers better understand the long-term functional and structural...
Im 13 and heres the deal. So i tore my acl about a week ago in football and i had an MRI and my doctor told me i have a complete acl tear. but he said he doesnt want to do surgery on me because of my growth plates and he said if he did surgery it would mess them up. He said ill need to wait for...
Frank Reynolds's story is obviously a complex, multi-year affair that involved years of research, but for the attention-span deprived, a summary: He was paralyzed. He researched neuroscience. Created a company. Tested a new surgical procedure on himself. He walked again. More »