OBJECTIVES To analyse the injury-related content of children's television programmes preferred by boys and by girls, and to determine whether there are more televised models of unsafe behaviour in programmes preferred by boys. METHODS Parents of 4-11-year-old children identified their children's favourite television programmes. Content analysis of 120 episodes of children's favourite programm...

A model of visual apparent motion is derived from four observations on path selection in ambiguous displays in which apparent motion of illuminated dots could, in principle, be perceived along many possible paths: (a) Whereas motion over each path is clearly visible when its stimulus is presented in isolation, motion is usually seen over only one path when two or more such stimuli are combined ...

This study compared the latencies of visually induced postural change and self-motion perception under identical visual conditions. The results showed that a visual roll stimulus elicits postural tilt in the direction of scene motion and an increase in postural instability several seconds before the subject begins to perceive illusory self-motion (vection) in the opposite direction. Postural an...

Rehabilitation of an athlete can present its own challenges. Few protocols are available to guide physicians in proper return to sport. Rehabilitation after foot and ankle sport injury can be categorized into 3 different stages but should also be individualized. The focus of this article is to help the treating physician in creating a protocol to safely return an injured athlete back to sport b...

The authors used traffic exposure data to calculate exposure-based fatal and nonfatal traffic injury rates in the United States. Nationally representative data were used to identify fatal and nonfatal traffic injuries that occurred from 1999 to 2003, and the 2001 National Household Travel Survey was used to estimate traffic exposure (i.e., person-trips). Fatal and nonfatal traffic injury rates ...

In this report we (i) measure the strength of the association between paediatric trauma visit rates and regional socioeconomic and demographic variables, and (ii) quantify any selective impact of user charges on service demand in socioeconomically and demographically different areas. During the period 1989-94, a total of 30,362 home and leisure injury visits were made to the Aurora City Hospita...

Objective. The aim of this study was to evaluate interobserver reliability in the presence of chondral injuries of the knee among radiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, radiologists, and orthopaedic surgeons. Methods. This was a prospective, web-based multi-institutional survey, consisting of 6 magnetic resonance exams of knee chondral injuries and a questionnaire to be completed by the participan...