Background. In South Africa (SA), road traffic injuries, homicides and burns are the leading causes of injury-related deaths among children. Injury-related well documented for SA, but this is not case non-fatal injuries.Objectives. To describe injuries sustained children aged 0 - 13 years, to identify any significant sex differences by age group, cause injury, admission status injury sev...

Objectives: To examine (1) the rate and time to return play (RTP) after hamstring muscle injury, (2) investigate of reinjury RTP, (3) conditions that are associated with increased severity injury or RTP. Methods: MLS Injury Surveillance database was queried for all athletes injuries from 2010-2021 were included categorized by severity. A defined as an incident required medical attention involve...

BACKGROUND Determining the severity of high ankle sprains in athletes and predicting the time that an athlete can return to unrestricted sport activities following this injury remain significant challenges. PURPOSE The objectives of this study were (1) to determine if objective measurements of injury severity after high ankle sprains could predict the time to return to play in Division I foot...

Vehicle occupants comprise a considerable proportion of traffic crash victims in Iran. This paper has focused on vehicleoccupants’ injury severity and employed the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) technique in order toidentify the most important variables affecting the injury severity of these road users in crashes occurred on rural freewaysand multilane highways in I...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to discover the differences among victims who had traumatic brain injury due to traffic accidents. METHODS Medical record of the head injury patients were analyzed according to their classification as traffic accident victims (pedestrian, motorcyclist or passenger and other motor vehicle deriver or passenger), age, gender, admission type (admitted from ...

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have highlighted the problems of diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). MTBI is a heterogeneous injury that may lead to the development of neurological and behavioral disorders. In the absence of specific diagnostic markers, mTBI is often unnoticed or misdiagnosed. In this study, mice were induced with increasing levels of mTBI and microRNA (...

The purpose of this study was to describe career performance outcomes after combat blast injury and to examine the relationship between the injury severity and type of military discharge. A retrospective cohort study of 4,255 male servicemembers injured in a combat blast as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom was completed. In the total sample, 37.8% experienced a normal discharge and 8.3% had an...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates post-ICU outcomes of patients admitted with moderate and severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in a tertiary neurocritical care unit in an low middle income country and the performance of trauma scores: A Severity Characterization of Trauma, Trauma and Injury Severity Score, Injury Severity Score and Revised Trauma Score in this setting. METHODS Adult patients di...