This is a 19-year-old female involved as a passenger in a motor vehicle collision. She was stabilized at a referring hospital then transferred to the level 1 trauma center. Her major injury was to the pelvis. She is haemodynamically stable. This was a closed injury with no leg length or rotational abnormality. She had no bowel or bladder injury. There was instability to compression and distract...

Seven cases of Chance fractures of the spine in children are presented, with their association to intra-abdominal injuries secondary to seatbelt use. A discussion and review of the literature suggest an increasing frequency of this particular injury with a high association given the clinical sign known as the "seatbelt sign." Also reviewed is the association of intra-abdominal injuries secondar...

We investigated the effects of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound on distraction osteogenesis in a rabbit model. Callotasis of the right tibia was performed in 70 male Japanese white rabbits using mini-external fixators. In the first part of the study in 64 animals using normal distraction (waiting period seven days; distraction rate 0.5 mm/12 hours; distraction period ten days), we evaluated the ...

Thirty-five children with lumbar spine injuries were evaluated with computed tomography and plain radiography following blunt trauma. The majority of these children (31) were injured in motor vehicle crashes; most of them (27 of 35, 77%) were restrained by lap-styled safety belts. The other mechanisms of injury included motor vehicle crashes involving a pedestrian (2), a fall (1), and a crush (...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether age and developmental differences in selective attention influence young children's differential responses to interactive and passive distraction. METHODS 65 3- to 6-year-old children underwent three cold-pressor trials while receiving no intervention, playing a video game (interactive distraction), or watching a video game (passive distraction). In addition, chil...

Description The OSTEOMED Logic Mandibular Distraction System is an intraoral bone distractor. It features various curved and straight bars activated with an activation wire (threaded wire) that has screw holes that are fixed to bone via 1.6mm or 2.0mm bone screws. The distractor is available in right and left versions. The activation wire is activated by a hex driver and is capable of distracti...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether increasing the demand for central cognitive processing involved in a distraction task, by involving the child in ongoing, effortful interaction with the distraction stimulus, would increase children's tolerance for cold pressor pain. METHODS Seventy-nine children ages 6-15 years underwent a baseline cold pressor trial followed by two cold pressor trials i...

Background: Complex distal radius fracture (CDRF) associated with median nerve injury is rarely reported due to low incidence or recognition rate. Thus, we the outcome of using distraction bridge plate fixation (DBPF) in managing CDRF without volar exploration. Case description: We a 67-years old male who sustained pain right wrist dorsal angulated deformation following fall on an outstretched ...

Closing the eyes helps memory. We investigated the mechanisms underlying the eyeclosure effect by exposing 80 eyewitnesses to different types of distraction during the witness interview: blank screen (control), eyes closed, visual distraction, and auditory distraction. We examined the cognitive load hypothesis by comparing any type of distraction (visual or auditory) with minimal distraction (b...

Older adults' decreased ability to inhibit irrelevant information makes them especially susceptible to the negative effects of simultaneously occurring distraction. For example, older adults are more likely than young adults to process distraction presented during a task, which can result in delayed response times, decreased reading comprehension, disrupted problem solving, and reduced memory f...