Sentences with phrase «mechanism of injury»

Any evidence by Dr. Wooden seeking to offer an opinion about the plaintiff's injuries, such as the inferences to be drawn from the observations in the x-rays or with respect to the cause or mechanism of the injury, would be prohibited because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with Rule 40A.

... While on the evidence by Dr. Wooden seeking to offer an opinion about the plaintiff's injuries such as the inferences to be drawn from the observations in the x-rays or with respect to the cause or mechanism of the injury would be prohibited because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with Rule 40A.

We aggressively represent our clients in car accident cases including every mechanism of injury from head on collisions, side crashes, drunk driving accidents, rear - end crashes to defective manufacture and design cases against auto manufacturers.

Whether it is automobile, truck, cruise ship, airline, premises liability, medical malpractice, defective product or some other mechanism of injury we have the experience to apply the wrongful death laws for the benefit of our clients.

Post operative rehabilitation requires extensive knowledge of the procedure, the anatomy, the species, the mechanism of injury, proper pain control, the medications you have been prescribed, and the behavior of many personalities of dogs.

All of the nerve agents, old and new, operate on the same biochemical principles and cause the same mechanism of injury by provoking a «cholinergic crisis».

One study identified more serious injuries occurring when the child fell with a caretaker, 6,9 highlighting this as an important mechanism of injury for prevention efforts.

Falls were the most common mechanism of injury (about 73 %).

The most common mechanism of injury was tackling (23 %), followed by contact with an opponent (20 %), and being tackled (14 %);

Mechanisms of injury and underlying risk factors.

«The nature of this research allows us to study the mechanisms of injury and recovery directly in humans rather than in animal models,» Dr. McCrea said.

Hypothermia affects several different mechanisms of injury and has been shown in several clinical trials to be neuroprotective in newborns; however, it may not help the most severe babies.

Falling and jumping from the chair were the leading mechanisms of injury.

They found that compared with children who had other mechanisms of injury, children injured by gunshot had the highest proportion of serious injuries (23 percent), major surgery (32 percent), in - hospital deaths (8 percent) and per - patient costs ($ 28K per patient).

The attorneys at Altman & Altman represent the families of injured children hurt through a variety of different mechanisms of injury, from those caused by defective car seats or cribs to injuries sustained by dog bites.

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For if, e. g., a man loses consciousness as soon as his brain is injured, it is clearly as good an explanation to say the injury to the brain destroyed the mechanism by which the manifestation of the consciousness was rendered possible, as to say that it destroyed the seat of consciousness.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

That change was based on an in - depth study of the tackle, done to identify the mechanisms for head injury.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

New walkers that meet the voluntary Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) standards (1997), including being too wide to fit through a standard doorway, or having features, such as a gripping mechanism, to stop the walker at the edge of a step, are safer than older ones, but they are still a possible source of injuries for children.

The folding hinge located on the right side of the B - Agile (or BOB Motion) stroller frame may pose a Partial Fingertip Amputation Hazard from the folding hinge mechanism as the consumer folds the stroller if, after depressing the fold release button, the consumer then continues to press the button while simultaneously pulling on the fold release strap with the other hand Have any injuries been reported?

This is in response to a number of reported cases in which the frame lock of a sport v2 (which shares a common hinge with the classic v1) was not utilised and an adult user caught a finger in the hinge mechanism, causing injury.

His work studied diagnostic and therapeutic responses as well as elucidation of the basic mechanisms of penetrating injury.

«Our findings help us to better understand the complexity of the brain and also grasp mechanisms that can be used to reduce brain injury and disease.»

The study abstract, «The Mechanisms and Injuries Associated with Playground Slides in Young Children: Increased Risk of Lower Extremity Injuries with Riding on Laps,» will be presented Monday, Sept. 18, at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition in Chicago.

Most plastic surgery cases involved the limbs, reflecting the high rate of injuries caused by blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs)-- the «signature wounding mechanism» of the war in Afghanistan, according to the authors.

A team of researchers led by the University of South Carolina's Jeff Twiss just reported an innate repair mechanism in central nervous system axons that might be harnessed to regenerate nerves after brain or spinal cord injuries.

«It seems dinosaurs evolved a splendid suite of defence mechanisms to help regulate the healing and repair of injuries.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has led the first study to determine underlying biological mechanisms that promote functional recovery of the blood - brain barrier (BBB) after blast injury.

The Center's goal is to understand basic mechanisms of tissue and organ formation, and then to use this knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging, disease and injury.

Researchers modeled kidney development and injury in kidney organoids (shown here), demonstrating that the organoid culture system can be used to study mechanisms of human kidney development and toxicity.

«Understanding the mechanisms that promote aberrant neurogenesis caused by traumatic brain injury and subsequent seizures may open new therapeutic avenues to prevent epilepsy and associated memory problems caused by impact,» said senior author Dr. Jenny Hsieh, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and a member of the UT Southwestern Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

Hovda says he sees no reason why these mechanisms wouldn't contribute to other types of brain injury too, from car accidents to shaken baby syndrome.

The findings suggest more subtle forms of brain injury, such as concussion, may adversely affect HPO [hypothalamic - pituitary - ovarian] axis function (this governs the menstrual cycle) and therefore menstrual cycles through a number of proposed mechanisms leading to disrupted gonadotropin secretion, according to the article.

Most research on the mechanisms of TBI has focused on neurochemical changes at the site of injury, such as metabolic alterations and ion imbalances inside neurons, he says.

If so, then the idea of activating the mechanisms — dormant or blocked in our species — that give salamanders such formidable powers of recovery from injury suddenly doesn't seem quite so far - fetched.

«A better understanding of the mechanisms involved in axon guidance will offer new possibilities for developing techniques to treat lesions resulting from spinal cord injuries, and possibly even neurodegenerative diseases.»

The discovery of this «immune system paralysis» and its underlying mechanisms represents an important step on the path to improving the treatment of spinal cord injury patients.

After eight years of work, we were able to identify an entirely new mechanism for how spinal cord injury weakens the immune system,» said principal investigator Dr. Jan M. Schwab, neurologist and physician at Ohio State's Neurological Institute, who collaborated with researchers from several institutes in Germany, along with the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Harvard Medical School and Boston's Children's Hospital.

These findings, which reported in the Neural Regeneration Research, propose new insights into the mechanisms underlying the role of ethanol exposure in central nervous system injuries, and provide a new strategy for treating the consequences of prenatal ethanol exposure.

Yet over the course of a life moving through this world, our DNA does get damaged, and our cells have a host of complicated repair mechanisms to deal with such injuries.

These mechanisms still work even if the neural pathways from the brain are physically interrupted as the result of a spinal cord injury.

«Evolution has created a robust mechanism of bone regeneration, which may explain how wild animals can survive traumatic bone injuries,» says senior study author Elazar Zelzer of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

He and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have begun to explore how fruit flies could help uncover the cellular mechanisms behind traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans.

«We've observed for the first time this particular wave phenomenon in the brain, and we think it could be a primary mechanism of neural injury in many types of head trauma,» says Gianmarco Pinton, PhD, an assistant professor in the Joint UNC - NC State Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Have detected the mechanism behind the injuries Elin Sørhus has also conducted thorough studies of the genetics and the molecular biology behind the haddock larvae's injuries.

Athlete - athlete contact was the most common mechanism of all concussions among boys (68.8 percent) and girls (51.3 percent) regardless of the soccer - specific activity during which the injury occurred.

To date, the regenerative mechanisms leading to healing of lung injury remain incompletely understood.