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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Neck Stiffness"”.
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Routine cranial CT before lumbar puncture in HIV positive adults presenting with seizures at Mitchells Plain Hospital in Cape Town
… of consciousness, focal signs, head ache and neck stiffness. 25% of patients had a space occupying lesion (defined as a discreet lesion that has a measurable volume) or cerebral oedema. Multivariate analysis showed a CD4 count < 50 (p=0.033) to be a statistically significant predictor of …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… Clinical manifestations ranged from fever with neck stiffness alone, to associated septic shock with petechial rash. The commonest complaints were fever (99%), anorexia (88.5%), headache (73.8%), vomiting (71.3%), arthralgia (about 60%), the commonest signs were; neck stiffness (96.9%), Kernigs …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
… Clinical manifestations ranged from fever with neck stiffness alone, to associated septic shock with petechial rash. The commonest complaints were fever (99%), anorexia (88.5%), headache (73.8%), vomiting (71.3%), arthralgia (about 60%), the commonest signs were; neck stiffness (96.9%), Kernigs …
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Biomechanical Analyses of Head Acceleration during Contact Sports and Ankle Joint Complex Injury
… in Adams to determine design parameters such as neck stiffness and dampening. A pendulum impactor was constructed to achieve various impact energies by changing the release angle of the arm reaching up to 110 J. A dummy’s neck was designed as a single degree-of-freedom hinge joint with variable …
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Profile of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged between 1 and 59 months admitted to the paediatric wards at the UTH, Lusaka
… presenting complaints were body hotness (96.7%), neck stiffness (69.6%), excessive crying (59.8%), fits (56.5%) and bulging of anterior fontanel (42%).
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Will Strengthening the Cervical Muscles of the Neck Diminish the Risk of Concussions?
… strengthening the muscles surrounding the head-neck vertebrae may help minimize the risk of concussion in football. Although no study has confirmed that stronger and larger neck muscles will minimize football related concussions, nevertheless sport practitioners have incorporated a wide array of …