Wounded Knee Massacre

Many people have dealt with life changing experiences throughout their lives. My life has changed in the past two years and I have been struggling with a knee problem called Osteochondritis Dissecans, or OCD for short. Osteochondritis Dissecans is a condition where the bone underneath your cartilage dies due to a lack of blood supply. This can cause the bone to crack and loosen and sometimes even completely disconnect from the joint. Not only has OCD taken me out of all my extracurricular…

Common symptoms of the full can and empty can test are weakness and pain, therefore both tests need to be used to test for rotator cuff injuries. If pain, weakness, or both are present, these tests are thought to be positive. Since pain modifies muscle strength, there is a concern about the reliability of the empty can test.1 This concern arises because of the internal rotation of the humerus results in impingement, therefore potentially decreases the usefulness of the test. With the empty can…

Every day, athletes sustain horrid injuries. There are football players with broken noses, soccer players with torn ACL’s, ballerinas with fractured feet, and many more. Every time an athlete steps out onto their specific playing field they face a potentially career-ending injury. As a dancer, I have seen numerous amounts of injuries while performing. Sports injuries are some of the most common injuries that doctors see. For serious athletes an injury can be detrimental to their career…

or lower leg bone, or a separation of the ligament and part of the bone from the rest of the bone. The body parts affected by this are your knee. Not any other place but your knee. The common cause of this injury is sports. This injury can happen many different ways for example if your foot is firmly planted on the ground and sudden force hits your knee, it could happen when you are changing direction rapidly…

Ruptured Globe A ruptured globe is when the surface of your eye is split open due to an injury. This can happen when something sharp punctures the eyeball or when the eyeball is struck so hard that it breaks open. A ruptured globe is a medical emergency. CAUSES This condition may be caused by any accident in which a sharp or a blunt object hits the eye or the face strikes a hard object. This may be done by: • Being forcefully poked in the eye by a sharp object, such as a stick, pencil,…

Twenty three patients (24 knees) with symptomatic recurrent subluxation of the LM treated by arthroscopic meniscus repair were included. The inclusion criteria were (1) patients with knee pain, locking or snapping symptoms despite 3 months of conservative treatment, (2) non-discoid lateral meniscus, (3) stable knee, and (4) tears involving the red-white or red–red zone. All tears were repaired with either the modified all-inside suture technique only or a combination of the modified all-inside…

I chose to write about melorheostosis. This disorder usually affects the arms and legs and is normally only on one side of the body. The common symptom of melorheostosis is irregular bone growth such as thickening and widening of the bones. Since it only effects on side of the body, this causes the limbs to be uneven in length. Other symptoms can include pain, swelling, stiffness, unable to use full range of motion, swelling of the joints and abnormal muscles. The exact cause of melorheostosis…

Diagnose/ Elbow dislocation -When any of the various elbow surfaces are separated or moved out of their original place an Elbow dislocation occur. - Elbow dislocations are the second most commonly dislocated in adults next to shoulders. They are the most commonly dislocation in children. -The greatest causes and events that can cause an elbow dislocation are falling, outstretching the hand so that the force sent through the arm can dislocate the elbow when hitting the floor. Traumatic injuries…

because of the fact it is not an inflammatory condition. The most common type of arthritis next to rheumatoid arthritis. This arthritis tends to occur in the hand joints, spine, hips, knees, and great toes. The lifetime risk of developing OA of the knee is about 46%, and the lifetime risk of developing OA of the hip is 25%, according to the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, a long-term study from the University of North Carolina and sponsored by the Centers for…

walking. They concluded that the higher-heeled shoes increase the joint loading due to higher knee extensor and flexor movements caused by the increased height. Casey D. Kerrigan (2004) administered an experiment to see if heel height of 3.8 cm increased the torque of knee joints. They determined that since knee torque is a major cause for increased knee osteoarthritis and heel height showed an increase in knee torque then prolonged wear could lead to osteoarthritis. All three of these studies…