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In female athletes with chronically higher estrogen levels, differences in the mechanical properties of tendons may lead to a higher risk of injury, according to a study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning...

A 15-year old boy ordered a handheld laser pointer online. He wanted it to pop balloons from a distance and play around with, this included burning holes into paper cards and his sister's shoes. Doctors from Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Lucerne, Switzerland continue explaining in a letter...

The U.S. Army honors soldiers wounded or killed in combat with the Purple Heart, a powerful symbol designed to recognize their sacrifice and service.Yet Army commanders have routinely denied Purple Hearts to soldiers who have sustained concussions in Iraq, despite regulations that make such...

...micro state called Liechtenstein? ...Just wanted to know.

I have started martial arts and received a groin injury, I am pretty sure it is Grade 1. It is not painful at all, but I can feel something there in the groin. Can I continue doing martial arts stretching? or shall I stop stretching for a week and see how it is?, I mean if it is not hurting then...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) awarded the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation a $5.4 million grant to support the expansion of translational research to find treatments for military men and women with spinal cord injuries. The DoD gave the two-year, peer-reviewed grant to the...

One of the most common causes of disability in young adults is spinal cord injury. Currently, there is no proven reparative treatment. Hope that neural stem cells (NSCs) might be of benefit to individuals with severe spinal cord injury has now been provided by the work of a team of researchers...

Personally, I wish Andrew had clotheslined the annoying little twerp.

With kids going back to school soon and football practice already underway in many communities, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is issuing an injury prevention message about football and cheerleading. "We decided to focus on this topic for Neurosurgery Outreach Month...

I read this awhile ago and now I can't remember a title or author. I remember the injury happened before the book starts and the woman is self concious about her scarred bald head. Her boyfriend is a cop and she helps solve a kidnapping. Sound familiar to anyone?

I was filtering through traffic and whilst doing 10mph a pedestrian stepped in front of me from behind a lorry. I had just time to avoid full impact but caught his elbow. He didn't sustain any injury at all, but my bike's indicator and brake lever broke. I felt with my bike. The guy wasn't...

I was filtering through traffic and whilst doing 10mph a pedestrian stepped in front of me from behind a lorry. I had just time to avoid full impact but caught his elbow. He didn't sustain any injury at all, but my bike's indicator and brake lever broke. I felt with my bike. The guy wasn't...

I recently started a job that includes some heavy lifting every now and then, nothing too major. The past two days ive noticed an unpleasant odor that seemed to be coming from my chest or abdomen somewhere, i couldn't figure out what it was. Then i noticed my belly button looked wet, and i...

UroToday.com - One interesting component of this case was that the patient was taking melantonin. We were never able to obtain the dose or the indication for this medication. In researching this subject we discovered a study in which melantonin was used to protect spermatogenesis in rats with...

Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine hosted a press conference following a continuing medical education program on the epidemiology of head injury in professional football. The program was an evidence-based review of traumatic brain injury in the sport. The objectives of the conference on...

A new study presented at the 64th Vascular Annual Meeting presented by the Society for Vascular Surgery® informs that select patients with blunt aortic injury (BAI) can be safely managed non-operatively with beta-blockade to lower the heart rate and blood pressure. Researchers reported that...

than before the injury? It's sort of like Saiyans becoming much stronger after recovering from serious injury. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100530144612AA8O4L7

than before the injury? It's sort of like Saiyans becoming much stronger after recovering from serious injury. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100530144612AA8O4L7

The University of Bath has received funding from the International Rugby Board to launch a major study of the scrum that will that drive best practice player welfare policy in this critical area of the game. The two-year study the Biomechanics of the Rugby Scrum will provide an in-depth analysis...

I was working on my weight loss when my ankle started hurting. Went to the doctor and found out the my old ankle sprain is actually an old ankle fracture. I was doing aerobics at the school I was enrolled at and I was running. I was also doing aerobics DVD's at home. My ankle is not inflamed...