Sentences with phrase «of serious head injuries»

Workers involved in demolition suffer hundreds of serious head injuries a year as a result of falling metal, concrete, shrapnel, and other objects.

Side airbags are standard in more cars: Growing sales of SUVs and pickup trucks have exacerbated height mismatches among passenger vehicles, and these mismatches increase the risk of serious head injuries among occupants of side - struck vehicles.

But park district officials responded that, so far, the increased risk has n`t translated into a large number of serious head injuries such as those suffered by an 8 - year - old Northwest Side boy when he fell from a spiral slide in a Chicago park in 1978.

I led the development of the scientific standing of the Department of Child Health, with wide ranging innovations including further studies on the endocrine control of blood sugar concentrations to the influences of poverty and deprivation on the prevention and management of serious head injury in children.

This is because small differences in occupants» heights or in their seating positions compared with the test dummies could result in a hard contact and high risk of serious head injury.

Learning to recognize the signs and symptoms of a serious head injury, and starting basic first aid, can save a person's life.

This will dramatically reduce your risk of a serious head injury in the event of a bike accident, and could quite possibly be the difference between life and death.

The doctor called to assess the man concluded he had died during the night of a subdural haematoma, which is usually the result of a serious head injury.

Not exact matches

Explaining the family's injuries, VOMC said: «The youngest of the three sustained injuries to his left leg, neck, and chest; while his elder brother, who was hit with a blunt object, sustained more serious injuries to his head, chest and back.

The injury looked serious as Hernandez needed the help of a pair of trainers as he left the field and headed to the locker room.

As seen in the video below, the Fenerbache ace looked dazed and out of it as his head was lifted up by Duda, but the great news is that he didn't suffer any serious injury and will undoubtedly be thankful to his teammate for his help.

Icelandic goalkeeper Jón Kristbjörnsson suffered a serious head injury on the last day of the season in Iceland in June, 1933 when he collided with an opponent from KR Reykjavik.

At the start of the season, with Nathaniel Clyne suffering serious injury and the club heading into the campaign with two untested young right back, fans were understandably nervous.

While the annual cut - off point came too early to include the lucrative sale of Kyle Walker to wealthy champions - elect Manchester City, Spurs still managed a # 40 million profit on player disposals, including those of Nacer Chadli to struggling West Bromwich Albion and the ill - fated Ryan Mason, who has since been forced to retire after suffering a serious head injury, to Hull.

As a result of rule changes, equipment standards, better conditioning of the neck, and improved on - field medical care, there has been a dramatic decrease over the past 20 years in the most serious head injuries.

Even today, with all the attention on concussions, Safe Kids Worldwide found that half of all coaches surveyed believe there is an acceptable amount of head contact (i.e., getting their bell rung, seeing stars) young athletes can receive without potentially causing a serious brain injury (fact is, there isn't).

Portable cribs and mesh play yards pose a serious threat for numerous reasons such as choking or entanglement hazards; head entrapment or suffocation; and risk of injury from tipping when legs on the product become loose and separate.

That makes it important to get your kids to wear bicycle helmets every time they ride, especially since head injuries are the most common cause of death and serious injury in bicycle crashes.

Some head injuries are more serious than others and it's important you know the signs and can act fast in case of an emergency.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

For years professional football swept the issue of head injuries under the rug, denying that a serious problem even existed.

Although less common, there are risks of more serious injuries, such as head or neck injuries.

While Reebok and the Cambridge, Mass. - based company MC10 are still very hush - hush about their thin adhesive fitness tracking sensor sticker, both companies announced the invention of a new wearable sports impact indicator that can gauge how serious a head injury might be when playing sports.

However, head and neck injuries constitute a notable number of the more serious injuries requiring hospitalization...

By Sacramento Bee No helmet pad can prevent or eliminate the risk of concussions or other serious head injuries while playing sports.

It may be a minor matter of a knee bruise for you but it can cause a serious head injury.

The floor of your grocery store is cold and very hard and a fall this length can cause a serious head injury.

«Because this bullet can be fired wire - free from a standard shotgun there is a heightened risk of causing serious injury to the face and head.

Karen Hinton, de Blasio's former press secretary, who was recently placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a serious head injury, as of Saturday was coming out of sedation but hadn't yet regained full consciousness.

First, rumors have constantly been raising the possibility of octogenarian Congressman Charlie Rangel — who is recovering from a serious back injury — passing his torch to Assemblyman Keith Wright, the head of the Manhattan's Democratic Party organization.

Bajwa, deputy mayor of Delhi, suffered serious head injuries after being attacked by a group of Rhesus Macaque monkeys at his home.

Nettles hit the back of her head on the pavement, causing a serious brain injury, and leaving her unconscious.

As a result, the Jacksons said, Faika Jackson fell at the corner of West 133rd Street near the entrance of the Henry Hudson Parkway, sustaining «severe, serious and permanent injuries» to her head, body and limbs, which left her suffering «great mental and physical pain and bodily injury» and unable to work, according to the complaint.

ALBANY — Mayor de Blasio's former press secretary, who was recently placed in a medically induced coma after suffering a serious head injury, is coming out of sedation but hasn't yet regained full consciousness, Gov. Cuomo said Saturday.

Boxers, however, are more likely to experience serious harm from concussions and other head trauma, loss of consciousness, eye injuries, smashed noses and broken bones.

We often treat people who have fallen off of high ladders, which results in serious and extensive injuries (head trauma, collapsed lungs).

A lot of guys are accustomed to turn around to talk to others while they're lifting, lifting their head up while bench pressing or looking down while curling, and these habits can lead to chronic neck and back pain over time, decreasing your back strength and increasing the risk of a serious injury.

However, he has TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), which creates a whole host of complications: memory loss, mood swings, impulse control issues, diminished ability to decide things for himself, and substantially higher risk for serious injury if he hits his head again.

After hitting his head on a concrete floor (thus only confirming the tot's fear of serious injury stemming from accident), Richard does a Dorothy Gale into an animated land structured around a library motif, with his Virgils manifesting themselves as books called Adventure (Patrick Stewart), Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), and Horror («voice god» Frank Welker).

Most serious head injuries in auto - pedestrian collisions are caused by the hard structure under the hood at the base of the windshield and the A-pillars.

On April 13, 2013, Galindo, a commercial driver's license (CDL) holder, was operating a tractor - trailer on U.S. 90 near San Antonio, Texas, on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle was involved in a head - on collision with an SUV, resulting in four fatalities and one serious injury.

Measures recorded on the dummy's head, neck, and chest indicate low risk of serious injury in these areas of the body, but the poorly controlled movement of the dummy during the impact may have contributed to high forces on its right leg.

In the side impact, the force with which the head struck the side roof rail indicated a high probability of serious or fatal injury.

Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate that serious head injuries would be possible in a crash of this severity.

Its position between the glass and sunroof visor allow the airbag to inflate regardless of whether the roof is open or closed and Hyundai says that in testing with dummies it prevented passengers from being flung out of the vehicle when open, or serious head trauma occurring when closed, reducing live - threatening injuries to minor ones.

Front - seat occupants in the 1993 Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Am could suffer serious head injuries in a 35 - mph frontal crash, the government says.The Grand Am had a driver head - injury score of 1,459 and a passenger score of 1,093 in crashes conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Drivers could be vulnerable to serious head injury and possible chest injury in the 1993 Toyota 4Runner, according to the latest round of government crashes.The four - door 4Runner sport - utility, equipped with manual seat belts, had a driver's head - injury score of 1,267 and a driver's chest - injury score of 60.

Without side airbags, injury measures recorded on the driver dummy indicated that serious head injuries would be possible in a real - world crash of similar severity.

When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, «the prolonged destruction of a personality.»

Angie had a couple of serious fractures for which surgery had been required, she lost a spleen, there was a collapsed lung and she had a titanium rod in a femur, but the big issue was the head injury — there had been an impressive laceration on the back of her head and while there was no open fracture, her brain began to swell and the neurosurgeon implanted a shunt to drain the edema.