Author: Patrick M Ryan
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: injury, attorney, personal, traits, litigator, personality, profile
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 059535534X
ISBN-13: 9780595355341

Understanding one another can eliminate intimidation and create a more favorable climate. How we choose to deal with one another can and should be constantly improved. Because we choose how to behave, we do more than respond mindlessly to stimuli, we help create the reality that shapes our relationships. Our future choices are limited by the nature of our relationship to the other person and the intensity of another’s desire or need to maintain the relationship. People will always stereotype attorneys. I don’t believe that the contents of this book will change the way attorneys are view

Author: William Weintraub
Publisher: Paradigm Publications (MA)
Keywords: sports, overuse, injury, approach, new, ligament, healing, tendon
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2003-05-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0912111739
ISBN-13: 9780912111735

Authors:M. Peden, K. Oyebite, J. Ozanne-Smith, A.A. Hyder, C.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Keywords: prevention, injury, child, report, world
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2009-03
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 9241563575
ISBN-13: 9789241563574

WHO and UNICEF have developed this report to raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impacts of child injuries globally, to draw attention to the preventability of the problem and present what is known about the effectiveness of intervention strategies. The report makes recommendations that can be implemented by all nations to effectively reduce child injuries.The report compiles current knowledge–and highlights knowledge gaps–regarding various types of child injuries and action that should be taken to prevent them. It is hoped that this report will result in greater global a

Author: Arun Paul Amar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: controversies, consensus, injury, cord, management, spinal, surgical
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 1405122064
ISBN-13: 9781405122061

Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury: Controversies and Consensus reviews the controversies pertaining to the emergency, diagnostic, medical, and surgical management of spinal cord injury (SCI). In vitro studies, animal models, and clinical outcome analyses have all failed to yield incontrovertible guidelines that define the role of surgery in SCI. As a result, there is no consensus regarding the necessity, timing, nature, or approach of surgical intervention. In this concise yet comprehensive book some of the leading authorities in the field scrutinize the scientific data and summarize t

Authors:Robert G. Kalb, Stephen M. Strittmatter,
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: contemporary, neuroscience, injury, cord, spinal, neurobiology
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-10-22
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0896036723
ISBN-13: 9780896036727

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT. Reviews current understanding of SCI and focuses on the mechanisms causing paralysis after trauma, the molecular determinants of neural regeneration, and methods for improving function after damage. Discusses the role of intracellular Ca2 in neuronal death. For researchers and clinicians. DNLM: Spinal Cord Injuries--physiopath

Authors:Roger Bartlett, Melanie Bussey,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: improving, performance, injury, reducing, biomechanics, sports
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-07-26
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0419184406
ISBN-13: 9780419184409

This advanced text is the companion volume to Introduction to Sports Biomechanics, also written by Roger Bartlett. Focussing on third year undergraduate and postgraduate topics the text explores sports injury in relation to biomechanics. Part One presents a detailed examination of sports injury, including the properties of biological materials, mechanisms of injury occurrence, risk reduction, and the estimation of forces in biological structures. Part Two concentrates on the biomechanical enhancement of sports performance and covers in detail the analysis of sports technique, statistical and

Author: Professor William J. Winslade
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: hope, healing, devastation, injury, traumatic, brain, confronting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-11-10
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300079427
ISBN-13: 9780300079425

This book--the first comprehensive, accessible book on traumatic brain injury--explains what it is, how it is caused, and what can be done to treat, cope with, and prevent it. The book includes illuminating case studies, key ethical and legal issues, public policy proposals, and practical steps we can take to protect ourselves from brain trauma.