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Showing 1 to 20 of 4887 for “"Injury"”.
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Predicting Occupant Injury with Vehicle-Based Injury Criteria in Roadside Crashes
… effort aimed at improving the current occupant injury criteria typically used to assess occupant injury risk in crashes involving roadside hardware such as guardrail. These metrics attempt to derive the risk of injury based solely on the response of the vehicle during a collision event. The …
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Concussion, neck, and hamstring injury aetiology and injury prevention in Rugby Union
… the neck and hamstrings in Rugby Union for injury prevention purposes. Aims The overarching aims of this thesis were to: 1. better understand the role of neck and hamstring strength and imbalances in the context of concussion, neck, and hamstring injury incidence and prevention; 2. …
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Observational Analysis of Injury in Youth Ice Hockey: Putting Injury into Context
This study examines injury in competitive bodychecking and non-body checking youth ice hockey in male and female leagues in Ontario and Quebec. This study consisted of three parts: (1) quantifying the amount of injuries; (2) document situational factors in which hockey injuries occur; (3) observe …
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Soccer injury surveillance and implementation of an injury prevention programme in Rwanda
… to date often fail to incorporate standardised injury definitions or reporting methods. Therefore, there is an urgent need to conduct epidemiological studies within the context of low to middle-income countries, where resources may be limited, and taking into consideration exposure times to …
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Determination of inhalation injury
Respiratory tract injury caused by smoke inhalation is the most common early cause of death in thermal injury. Inhalation injury is most commonly assessed on the basis of clinical data, blood gas analysis, and bronchoscopy. Cardiopulmonary responses in the immediate post-injury phase of smoke …
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Self-Injury Knowledge and Peer Perceptions among Members of Internet Self-Injury Groups
Members of 26 MySpace social groups for self-injury (SI) provided data for this study investigating knowledge of SI, friends’ perceptions of SI, and the impact of online activity on SI. This study proposes that people who have belonged to these online SI groups for longer periods have higher levels …
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A Comparison of Post-Injury Symptomatology and Recovery Following Concussion Versus Orthopedic Injury
… Concussion research has utilized orthopedic injury (OI) comparison groups to examine outcomes specific to concussion versus physical injury in general, due to the suggestion that preexisting, comorbid, and other injury-related factors influence post-concussion symptom reporting and recovery. …
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Mitochondrial response to axonal injury
… of axonal mitochondria in the axonal response to injury. A viral vector (AAV) containing a mitochondrially targeted fluorescent protein (mitoDsRed) as well as fluorescently tagged LC3 (GFP-LC3), an autophagosomal marker, was injected into primary motor cortex, to label the corticospinal tract …
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Stress, attention and sports injury
… Andersen and Williams (1988) model of stress and injury. Three studies were carried out. The first study examined the relationship between life stress and athletic injury. The sample consisted of 320 (234 males, 86 females) competitive contact team sport athletes in Melbourne clubs, who completed …
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Genetic Networks Modulating Retinal Injury
… the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) after injury. Considerable efforts were placed on understanding the cellular and biochemical changes occurring after injury and during wound healing. Aside from cataloging the changes that occur, little progress is being made in understanding the …
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Psychological Predictors of Athletic Injury
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The Determinants of Childhood Injury
… association with the occurrence of child injury, even after controlling for factors such as employment status and household income. In the cross-national comparison between Canada and the U.S., there was evidence supporting the notion that a country which has a greater emphasis on policies …
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Angiotensin's Role in Hypoxic Injury
… the treatment and/or the prevention of stroke injury.
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Dance injury monitoring, strength and conditioning training for decreasing injury incidence for Chinese pre-professional dancers
… physical fitness have been linked to decreased injury incidence and improved dance performance, whilst they had not been reviewed. The systematic review, for the first time, systematically reviewed the efficacy of physical fitness training on dance injury. It included 10 studies that met the …
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The epidemiology of injury and risk factors associated with injury in first league field hockey players
This study investigated the epidemiology of injury in a population of first league field hockey players during a playing season, establishing the true incidence (injuries/ 1000 hours) of injury, as well as the risk factors associated with field hockey injuries. Both the epidemiology of field hockey …
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A systematic review: the role of neuroinflammation as a pathway to injury in traumatic brain injury
Background: HIV-associated tuberculosis has a high mortality. Chest x-rays are an adjunct diagnostic tool for tuberculosis but has high inter-reader variability, which may be reduced with chest x-ray scoring systems. We analysed and scored chest x-rays of hospitalised patients with HIV-associated …
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