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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Injury prevention"”.
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Quad bike injuries and injury prevention opportunities
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-50).
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An IoT-based Pressure Injury Prevention System
… and prototyped for caregivers to help pressure injury prevention by tracking, logging, and monitoring a patient’s activity. The system includes an innovative smart fabric-based sensor mat to measure sit- ting and lying pressure between a human body and a mattress or sitting surface, a …
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Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010
… but for more than 30 years, public health and injury prevention specialists have worked to address the problem of firearm injuries through surveillance, education, research, and laws. Firearm legislation is multijurisdictional across the federal, state, and local governments, but the majority …
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Behavioral Determinants of Exercise-Related Injury Prevention Program Participation
… have led to a shift in clinical practice towards prevention. Exercise-related injury prevention programs (ERIPPs) were created to prevent musculoskeletal injuries that occur due to participation in physical activity. However, one of the major limitations to their effectiveness is the compliance of …
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Knowledge and Attitudes of Nurses on Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
… that gaps are key factors in assessment, prevention, and treatment of pressure injuries. MethodsA cross sectional survey of nurses' responses to the PK-PUKT and Moore and Price instrument distributed by snowball sampling.ResultsResults demonstrate gaps in knowledge, attitude is generally …
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Coaches' naturalistic decision-making: injury prevention in youth elite soccer players.
… coaches, when making decisions for mitigating injury in youth soccer players. Data were collected on seven youth academy soccer coaches over two six-week data collection cycles. Coaches monitored and recorded individual injury risk incidents that occurred during each training and competition …
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Revealing complexities within flat-water kayaking: injury prevention and biomechanical analysis
… in their bodies, making them susceptible to injury. The first portion of this thesis is dedicated to investigating whether a supervised, corrective pre-habilitation programme of the kinetic chain, conducted twice a week for 10 weeks, would reduce these predisposing factors. A group of 19 …
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Polyurethane inserts for comfort and injury prevention while dancing en pointe
Pointe shoes have been made using the same rudimentary materials and methods for the past 200 years, and for this reason modern dancers lack access to more sophisticated equipment. Presented here is an insert that will last longer than a typical shoe, improve fit around the toes, and increase …
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Accident and Injury Prevention: The Effects of Job Factors and Employee Behaviors
… are concerned about employee safety and the prevention of workplace accidents, but maybe unaware that most accidents are the cause of unsafe employee behaviors. In this study, one company in particular wanted to know where, when, how, and why accidents were occurring in its plant. Accidents …
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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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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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The effectiveness and implementation of the BokSmart Safe Six Injury prevention programme
INTRODUCTION: Injury prevention programmes in rugby union are important to reduce the sport’s injury burden. The BokSmart Safe Six exercise-based injury prevention programme (“Safe Six”) was designed for this purpose. The programme incorporates six targeted exercises as a warm-up for rugby players. …
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Applications of Event Data Recorder Derived Crash Severity Metrics to Injury Prevention
… barrier tests, the assessment of occupant injury risk is crucial, as the purpose of the hardware is to prevent the vehicle from colliding with a more detrimental roadside object, all the while minimizing, and not posing additional, risk to the occupants. Unlike the new vehicle regulatory …
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Implementation of a care bundle model for pressure injury prevention, a DNP project
… care bundle highlights five elements of pressure injury prevention: skin assessment and inspection, surface support, mobility, incontinence management, and nutrition status to address early detection of skin breakdown and promote preventative measures. Objectives: The purpose of this project is to …
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A Wearable Device to Inform Pressure Injury Prevention Support Surfaces Selection and Design
… repositioning habits, and prevent pressure injury development.
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The Canadian Child Safety Report Card - A Comparison of Injury Prevention Practices Across Provinces
… report cards discuss implications for primary prevention policy or practice. Methods The Canadian Child Safety Report Card was developed in three studies using data from the Discharge Abstract Database and provincial coronial data. Interprovincial comparisons were made of measures of morbidity …
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Does an individualized back education programme change nurses' knowledge and practice about back injury prevention
Back injury has predominantly been a problem which has affected a large cross-section of nursing staff involved with direct patient care. While back injury prevention has been instituted in hospitals for sometime, the percentage of nurses with back injury remains high. Within a major teaching …
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Transitioning Care from Hospital to Home, Increasing Awareness of Take-home Pressure Injury Prevention Kits
… pressure injuries (PI) can be prevented. While prevention is considered standard of care while inpatient, there is a need to transition this care from hospital to home. This CNL project aimed to increased awareness of take home PI prevention kits made available to staff nurses at on medical …
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