OBJECTIVES To describe the rehabilitation outcomes of terror victims with multiple traumas, and to compare those outcomes with those of patients with nonterror-related multiple traumas treated in the same rehabilitation facility over the same time period. DESIGN Retrospective chart reviews. SETTING Rehabilitation department in a university hospital in Jerusalem, Israel. PARTICIPANTS Betwe...

Objective: Birthing trauma (BT) (i.e., complicated birth) is an early life complex trauma for the baby and mother that never been empirically examined or considered within the trauma field as a traumatic stressor for the newborn. The goal of current study is to examine its effects on mental health and neurocognitive functioning and explore its proliferation to other life traumas. Method: Curren...

Introduction Dentoalveolar traumas are commonly caused due to falls, fights, accidents etc in children and adolscents.

The study explores the effects of gender discrimination GD as type III trauma in 359, (160 females and 199 males) torture survivors. Data includes measures of GD and other traumas, PTSD and cumulative trauma disorders CTD. GD found to decrease PTSD symptoms in males favoring mental health status of males, and increase CTD symptoms in females. GD mediated the effects of personal identity traumas...

Childhood psychic trauma appears to be a crucial etiological factor in the development of a number of serious disorders both in childhood and in adulthood. Like childhood rheumatic fever, psychic trauma sets a number of different problems into motion, any of which may lead to a definable mental condition. The author suggests four characteristics related to childhood trauma that appear to last f...

We report the case of a 21-year-old man who injured his right hand in a fall from his motorbike, causing a trans-scaphoid perilunate fracture-dislocation associated with vertical fracture of the pyramid (A and B). On day 2, patient underwent a bloody reduction (C) of disorganized carpal bones with osteosynthesis of scaphoid and pyramid (D). Peri-lunate fracture-dislocation is a rare injury cons...

As well as other Multikinase Inhibitors (MKI), Imatinib has been related to cutaneous adverse reactions. The majority of these seem to directly depend on its mechanism of action, namely the inhibition of the physiologic function of cutaneous protein kinases, and appear to be dose dependent. Like other traditional chemotherapy agents, MKI cause alopecia, mucositis and xerosis. Cutaneous findings...