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Diseases of the Peripheral Nerve and Mononeuropathies
Published in Philip B. Gorelick, Fernando D. Testai, Graeme J. Hankey, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Hankey's Clinical Neurology, 2020
Diana Mnatsakanova, Charles K. Abrams
Nonsurgical therapy: Elbow pads, particularly while sleeping.Splinting the elbow in extension at night.Avoidance of leaning on the elbows.
Gastrointestinal tract and salivary glands
Published in A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha, Clark’s Procedures in Diagnostic Imaging: A System-Based Approach, 2020
A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha
The examination should be explained in detail and questions answered and printed after-care information explained and given to the patient. Elbow pads are given to the patient to wear for comfort and to reduce the risk of skin damage when moving into various positions while lying on a hard surface.
Complications of Treatment of the Hand
Published in Stephen M. Cohn, Matthew O. Dolich, Complications in Surgery and Trauma, 2014
Palsy of the ulnar nerve due to ulnar neuropathy at the level of the elbow is a recognized but poorly understood complication of surgery involving general anesthesia [34]. Use of elbow pads—and avoidance of abduction, pronation, and elbow flexion—may reduce the incidence of this complication. When the ulnar nerve is injured above the wrist, there will be diminished sensation to the dorsal as well as volar small finger.
Comparison of head impact frequency and magnitude in youth tackle football and ice hockey
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2022
Julia Meliambro, Clara Karton, Janie Cournoyer, Andrew Post, T. Blaine Hoshizaki, Michael D. Gilchrist
The impact striker or anvil was modified for each event type to best represent the compliance of the impact (Figure 3). For the youth football the helmet to helmet impact had the compliance of another helmet as a youth football helmet was attached to a headform pendulum system. The compliance for the shoulder impacts was represented by a 142 +/- 0.1 mm thick VN 602 foam striker with a football pad on top. The head to ground impacts used a foam anvil that was designed to replicate the compliance of falling onto a turf field (Karton et al. 2020). The ice hockey shoulder collisions used the same foam striker as the youth football shoulder collisions, except an ice hockey shoulder pad was used. The elbow striker was comprised of an aluminum frame that was covered in ¼ inch VN 602 foam and a youth elbow pad (Rousseau and Hoshizaki 2015). The head to head impact used an ice hockey helmet attached to a headform pendulum impactor. The glove/punch impactor used an aluminum frame with a layer of ¼ inch VN 602 foam with a glove attached to it (Chen et al. 2020; Post et al. 2021). The falls to ice used an ice anvil that was created by freezing water in a 0.12 m by 0.22 m diameter container at −25 for 48 hours. The glass anvil was constructed by creating a wooden frame for a 1.83 m by 1.22 m (0.15 m thick) piece of polycarbonate glass similar to what is used at ice hockey rinks (Post et al. 2019). The boards impact anvil was created using a piece of hockey boards (high density polyethylene) attached to it as the impact surface at the bottom of the monorail.
Development of a test method for adult ice hockey helmet evaluation
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2020
Andrew Post, Lauren Dawson, T. Blaine Hoshizaki, Michael D. Gilchrist, Michael D. Cusimano
The elbow striker was made of an aluminum L-shaped frame covered with a 25.4 mm thick layer of 602 VN foam, a 14.5 mm thick layer of R338V VN foam, and a RBK 11 K pro ice hockey elbow pad (Figure 2). The elbow striker was attached to the impacting arm of the pneumatic linear impactor creating an impact mass of 14.7 kg. It is acknowledged that the elbow impactor should be a lighter mass than that of the shoulder, as has been described in the research conducted by Rousseau and Hoshizaki (Rousseau and Hoshizaki, 2015). However, the proposed protocol was attempting to use a linear impactor method to represent the elbow to simplify the impact methodology, and to examine how close this modification of increased mass would be to the real world concussion reconstruction dataset that used a lower mass and a pendulum method.
Incidence and predictors of roller derby injuries among female roller derby athletes
Published in International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2018
Michelle L. Cathorall, Andrew A. Peachey
Many women who play roller derby experience injuries; however, there is a paucity of research in this area. There have been a number of studies examining the occurrence and type of injuries to female athletes who play sports similar to roller derby, such as ice hockey, soccer and roller skating. In the 1980s, studies of roller skating injuries, outside of roller derby, indicated that injuries occurred mostly to the upper extremities, including sprains and fractures of the forearms and wrists (Bunker, 1983; Dowey, 1982; Tse, Shen, Chan, & Leung, 1987). Although roller derby is played on roller skates, athletes use protective wrist guards and elbow pads, so it is not expected that the injuries will be similar to those of roller skating in general. In addition to skating skills, roller derby requires strength and agility to block and get around other skaters. Both of which require quick foot movements; including pivoting, turning and quick stops, which could result in a variety of injuries to the lower extremities, from bruises to torn muscles and ligaments or broken bones, similar to injuries seen in soccer and ice hockey. Unlike women's soccer and ice hockey, however, roller derby is a full contact sport so player-to-player contact is allowed; such player-to-player contact may increase the risk and/or severity of injury. The contact may result in twisting motions and falls. To date, there are no known published epidemiological studies describing injuries among female roller derby athletes. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to (1) describe the types of injuries female roller derby athletes experience; (2) quantify the incidence of injuries; (3) examine the relationship between demographic variables with injury.