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KiOntey Turner

Wilderness: Chest Injuries Treatment: First Aid Information for Wilderness: Chest Injuries - 0 views

  • The injured person should be given  oxygen at a rate appropriate to the clinical situation.
  • The neck and back of the injured person should be immobilized after a possible chest injury.
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    Information pertaining to an event of an emergency to the chest area.
Desire'e Redus

Groin-punch 'game' harms more boys - Health - Kids and parenting - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • An msnbc.com poll of 100 urologists, conducted by Truth On Call, showed that 30 percent of the doctors had seen or treated pre-teen and teen boys for testicular trauma in the past year, including severe injuries caused by so-called “sack-tapping,” in which boys ambush others at school and elsewhere.
  • The issue was highlighted by news last week that a 14-year-old Minnesota boy, David Gibbons, had to have his right testicle removed after a hallway assault. “This is, in fact, a form of bullying,” Atala said. “Someone may do that without realizing the consequences of their actions.”
  • This is, in fact, a form of bullying,”
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  • “This is, in fact, a form of bullying,”
  • Bruises, blood clots, testicular torsion — in which the organ twists up to 360 degrees — and, more rarely, testicular rupture, all are consequences of blunt force trauma to the testicles, including injuries caused by close-range punches.
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    This is about what has been stated about young teens and pre-teen males.
KiOntey Turner

Chest trauma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Thoracic trauma is a common cause of significant disability and mortality, the leading cause of death from physical trauma after head and spinal cord injury.[1] Blunt thoracic injuries are the primary or a contributing cause of about a quarter of all trauma-related deaths.
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    Explains the affect of blunt trauma to the chest areas and treatments that can be provided.
Marquise Middleton

Some Brains May Be Primed For Pain - Science News - 0 views

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    Some brains may be primed for pain Addiction-related process may keep people hurting long after an injury heals A signal in the brain can predict who will continue to suffer back pain more than a year after an initial injury.
KiOntey Turner

SpringerLink - Book Chapter - 0 views

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    This link is used to inform the reader of how chest injuries occur in the human body and to sell a product. Do not use this tag to find reliable information.
Marquise Middleton

Blaming the Brain for Chronic Back Pain - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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    Credit: iStockphoto/Thinkstock The vast majority of adults have had a sore back at some point in their lives. If they're lucky, the pain subsides after a few days or weeks. But for some, whose initial injuries appear no different than the fortunate ones, back pain lasts for years.
KiOntey Turner

Treatment Helps Paralyzed Rats Walk - Science News - 0 views

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    Treatment helps paralyzed rats walk Combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and therapy restores lost connections Web edition : Thursday, May 31st, 2012 Scientists have trained paralyzed rats to walk, run and even climb stairs. Weeks of rigorous practice coupled with an electrochemical spine-stimulating regimen allowed the animals to overcome devastating spinal cord injuries that immobilized their rear legs, Swiss scientists report in the June 1 Science.
Marquise Middleton

Mideast Violence Goes Way Back - Science News - 0 views

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    Mideast violence goes way back Head wounds common in region throughout last 6,000 years Web edition : Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 Head-bashing hostilities haunted the Middle East long before the region's current conflicts arose. Skulls of people from what are now Israel and the West Bank, dating to different times during the last 6,000 years, display a consistently high rate of serious injuries.
David Hoffelmeyer

Millions of Australian spiders gather and spin new webs to escape flooding - 0 views

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    From International Business Times… The flood is finally over for Wagga Wagga residents. However, damages of properties, loss of lives and injuries will remain in the memories of the people…. While everyone is looking at re-establishing properties, countless hairy-legged critters are busying rebuilding their homes.
Korry Busch

American Friends of Tel Aviv University: A Pacemaker for Your Brain - 0 views

  • By stimulating certain areas of the brain, scientists can alleviate the effects of disorders such as depression or Parkinson's disease.
  • delving deep into human behavior, neurophysiology and engineering to create a chip that can help doctors wire computer applications and sensors to the brain
  • the chip could restore lost functions of the brain after a traumatic brain injury from a car accident or stroke
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  • they develop algorithms to simulate healthy neuronal activity which are programmed into a microchip and fed back into the brain
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    a brain chip that "cures" depression
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