Physical trauma Essays

  • Physical Effects Of Childhood Trauma

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    Childhood trauma has been shown to affect the victim throughout his or her entire life. The developments of severe psychological disorders have been linked to early life traumatic events. In particular Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) are common in those with traumatic childhoods. These disorders will be identified and evidence presented to demonstrate that childhood trauma is directly linked and responsible for

  • The Effects Of Childhood Trauma On Health And Physical Health

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    childhood trauma affect health over a lifetime? To answer this question, let’s dive deeper into childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime and really try to dissect this complex question. The key points that will be discussed in this essay are: The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, defining emotional trauma on a child, defining physical trauma on a child, and the role trauma plays in our relationships. Also, discussed in this essay is the effects of trauma on our mental and physical health

  • Traumatic Injuries Essay

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    The article in UF Health talks about how brain injury is the most common cause to death from playing sports and to motor vehicle collisions. The physical injuries of sudden onset infections require medical attention, and traumatic injuries can occur sports injuries, falls and multitude other physical injuries (“Traumatic”). The result of severe infections can lead to traumatic injuries. Also, many people are involved with sports; and, many of the athletes gets injured

  • Violence in High School Sports

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    athlete engages in physical activity they are at risk. One of the most serious injuries found in student athletes are concussions. “A concussion is the result of taking a blow to the head hard enough to cause the brain to swell.”- (youthsportssafetystatistics.org). Concussions can cause memory loss and can interfere with daily functions. While an athlete is concussed they either lose consciousness or are impaired while conscious. This injury can also be tragic because if the trauma to the head is strong

  • Acupuncture Personal Statement

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    treacherous terrain for days at a time, jumped out of aircraft carrying over 160 pounds of equipment, dive on live ordnance at depths exceeding 150 feet, as well as being subjected to blunt trauma and explosions. My former occupation was physically demanding and resulted in physical damaging that kept me in constant physical pain. At that time in the military, alternative medicine like acupuncture was not available or even discussed as a treatment option for my injuries. My injuries

  • A Short Story: The Story Of A Nurse

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    graduation from nursing school not long after we were married. She was so excited to start her new career and get the experience she needed to pursue her dream job. You see, like many of us in the medical field, Mandy was a trauma junkie. The bug first bit her when she worked in the Trauma Center as an x-ray tech. Blood and broken bodies were no problem for Mandy. I worked for Meducare, the hospital based EMS service with a flight team. Mandy would

  • Stress In Psychology

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    Stress According to the American Institute of Stress, stress can be defined as an individual’s response, physical, mental or emotional, to an event that causes a demand for change (Selye, 1936). For athletes, that demand for change can be caused by an injury, which ultimately can have a significant impact on overall stress levels. While a physical injury can cause psychological stress, mental trauma can similarly affect an athlete physically. An athlete’s psychological stability has a great affect on

  • Child Insurance Case Study

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    Insurance Agents Look Out for Their Companies, Not You When speaking with an at-fault party’s insurance agent after an accident, it is easy to get the impression that the representatives are there to help you. However, in reality, that agent is looking for every opportunity to decline or minimize your claim in order to save their company money, as every seasoned Corona plaintiff lawyer can attest. Anything that you say to them will almost certainly be recorded, and your words can come back to haunt

  • Persuasive Essay On Motocross

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    safe and injury free but that is not always the case. Some riders will decide to ride without proper gear or ride if they are injured which is extremely dangerous. The AMA should replace their current safety rules with stricter ones and include physicals for the riders to ensure they are healthy. The American Motorcycle Associate (AMA) is an association that dictates all the rules for the sport of motocross, all races whether they are professional or amateur races are conducted through the AMA. According

  • Shock Treatment

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    created by longtime ad agency Wieden & Kennedy, debut nationally on October 12 during the National League Championship Series and will air into November. What this ad focuses on is a handful of athletes who have each suffered serious scarring or physical trauma while participating in their sport of choice. The spot is filmed in black-and-white, accented by a haunting rendition of the song 'You Are So Beautiful To Me,'; and featuring close-ups of injuries suffered by both elite and so-called 'everyday';

  • Reinjury Trauma In Sport

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    debilitating. Injuries are so common during athletics due to the high energy and dynamic nature of these activities. Collisions with the ground, objects and other players are frequent, and occur in all levels of sports. In addition to the physical effects of these traumas are the often disregarded psychological effects. These mental and emotional outcomes can include grief, disbelief, anger and denial, much of the same responses illustrated in the Kuhbler-Ross Model of Bereavement when dealing with loss

  • The Road to Recovery

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    Coming up to a jump about to go airborne but then smash! He crashes into the dirt breaking his leg and part of his knee, but he has no support. This is where you would go to Road 2 Recovery(R2R) for help. There are many foundations out there to help people with sport problems, but there are only a few to help with dirt biking. This is why The Road 2 Recovery foundation is a dedicated program to help AMA professional motocross and supercross members with financial and emotional assistance if they

  • Long Spine Board Immobilization, an Overused Pre-hospital Intervention

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    Patients, that have suffered blunt or penetrating trauma that is significant enough to cause spinal injury, have always been treated by Emergency Medical Services with full spinal immobilization. Most textbooks for paramedics and EMTs stress the importance of procuring manual c-spine immobilization, followed by c-collar application, and then placed on a spinal board with the patient’s head secured to the spinal board. This management of trauma patients has long been the industry standard, but studies

  • Psychiatry Punishment Case Study

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    The House of Lords in Page v Smith [1996] 1 AC 155 held that provided some kind of injury was foreseeable it did not matter whether the injury was physical or psychiatric. Secondary victims must meet the following ‘Alcock criteria’ in order to succeed in a claim for pure psychiatric harm; prove a close tie of love and affection to a primary victim; have witnessed the event with their own unaided senses;

  • Brain Injury In Hockey

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    into their opponent's’ goal. Teams usually have 6 players, one goalie and five skaters. Since playing hockey causes concussions, bodily injuries, and brain damage, youth must not be allowed to play the sport. Hockey players are at risk of severe physical injuries. The article “Ice hockey is Dangerous” by CoachUpNation talks about the different and common injuries players in hockey can get. In the article it states that “Some common injuries that occur from aggressive game play are lower back problems

  • Athletic Training Essay

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    work with athletes or nonathletes, and take care of them. They prevent injuries or disease from happening with proper training, care, and nutrition. If a disease of injury is to occur, then athletic trainers will rehabilitate them to their maximum physical capacity. Athletic trainers have five main domains in which they can classify their skill sets and qualifications. Domain one, injury and illness prevention, and wellness protection. In this domain, athletic trainers do their best to train athletes

  • Muscular Injury Essay

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    Muscular Injuries are common and with proper knowledge can be easily treated or prevented. There are three types of muscular injuries; strains, sprains and contusions. They are the most common reason for inactive games in the NFL, but you don’t have to be in the NFL to “pull” a muscle. Muscular injuries are common to all people whether the activity be athletic or simply recreational. A strain is injury to muscles or tendons. Tendons are cords of fiber that connect muscles to bones. The most common

  • History of Pre-hospital Care

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    transport people living in remote communities deep in the outback to hospital, to receive the care that they needed but lacked in their rural community. Helicopters are also perhaps more importantly used for transporting patients who have suffered severe trauma or are seriously ill to hospital as they provide a quicker method of transport than the conventional road ambulance. This speed i... ... middle of paper ... ...587. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.046359 Mercy Flight WNY (n.d.). History of Medevac. Retrieved

  • NFL Championship: History of the New York Giants

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    Intro: In 1946 two members of the New York Giants were found associating with gamblers, trying to fix the NFL Championship Game. These members were suspended and in 1947 the NFL introduced their form of prevention, the injury report (Merritt). Every week NFL coaches have to list their injured players on the NFL Injury Report. Each player has to be listed as either “doubtful,” “questionable,” or “probable” to play that weekend. What a lot of people don’t know is that an ample amount of teams are lying

  • Overuse Injuries In Youth Sports

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    Fatima Nemry. 3rd Quarter Gym. Overuse Injuries in Youth Sports. Overuse injury involves "repetitive submaximal loading of a particular musculoskeletal unit, resulting in changes due to fatigue of tendons or inflammation of surrounding tissues". Overuse injuries can occur when participating in any sport(s). These injuries can be related to specific sports, such as throwing injuries of the elbow and shoulder that are usually found in baseball players. Sport participation provides many benefits such