Abstract Worldwide, more than 50 million children and adolescents participate in organized athletic programs annually. Despite the numerous health well-being benefits, this widespread involvement also leads to acute overuse injuries that account for millions of medical visits each year. Musculoskeletal injury childhood may lead growth disturbance lifelong disability. Imaging plays a critical ro...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Although the home-related injury is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality among Iranians, there are few proven effective interventions to reduce the home injury risks. The arrangement of systematic approaches to study, arrange, and deliver strategies to reduce home accidents in our country is fundamental. This is a...

INTRODUCTION Sports activities play an important role in today's society. However, as more people become involved in these activities, the number of sports-related injuries also increases. In the Netherlands, 3.5 million sports injuries occur annually. Twenty per cent of these injuries are first seen by a GP. Little is known about the epidemiology of these injuries in general practice. This stu...

OBJECTIVE To provide data on the magnitude and patterns of animal related on-farm injuries to youth in the United States. DATA SOURCE A survey of 26,000 farm households conducted for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1998. SUBJECTS Youth younger than 20 years of age. RESULTS There were an estimated 6,438 animal rela...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, several massive earthquakes have occurred across the globe. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is reliable in detecting spinal injuries. The purpose of this study was to compare the features of spinal injuries resulting from the Sichuan earthquake with those of non-earthquake-related spinal trauma using MDCT. METHODS Features of spinal injuries of 223 Sichu...

purpose: to report and evaluate the characteristics of patients referred to the emergency department of labbafinejad medical center with work-related eye injuries during 2005.  methods: in this descriptive study, an available sample of patients with work-related eye injures were assessed. demographic characteristics, causes of ocular trauma, and use of work safety devices were main evaluated va...

while blunt trauma of the head and neck are a common pattern of injury, significant problems related to the prompt diagnosis and optimal management of traumatic artery injuries have been reported in the literature. while patients with major artery injuries might develop hemorrhagic shock very rapidly, patients with blunt cerebrovascular injuries (bcvi) can present asymptomatic, but complication...