BACKGROUND Reports from the U.S. suggest increases in the proportion and rate of head and neck injuries in skiers and snowboarders. It is important to determine if the same is true in Canada. METHODS Skiers and snowboarders (< 18 years) presenting to 16 selected emergency departments from 1991 to 1999 were assigned one body region of injury in the following order: i) brain and spine-spinal co...

This large volume of some 800 pages is a symposium from the pens of twenty-eight contributors. This is the third edition and includes much information gained from the study of head injuries in wartime. Several chapters are devoted to psychotic states and neuroses following head injuries, and an interesting chapter deals with malingering in relation to injuries of the brain, containing much info...

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BACKGROUND Previous case-control studies on bicycle helmet efficacy are mostly Anglo-Saxon, and based on data from the early 1990s when hard-shell helmets were common. METHODS In France, the Rhône county (1.6 million inhabitants) is covered by a road trauma registry that includes emergency department visits, hospital admissions, and fatalities. Over the 1998-2008 period, 13,797 cyclist casual...