In the United States, more than three million non-fatal workplace injuries were recorded in 2014. The injury rate of Nevada is above the average rate of national level. This paper analyzes injuries and illness rate of mechanical contracting industry located in southern Nevada. It also determines the impact of safety training classes and use of personal protection equipment to reduce these injur...

Many construction injuries are musculoskeletal related in the form of sprains and strains arising from the handling of materials, which are specified by designers. The paper presents the results of a study conducted among delegates attending two 'designing for H&S' (DfH&S) seminars using a questionnaire. The salient findings include: the level of knowledge relative to the mass and density of ma...

A Badminton Injury Questionnaire (BIQ) was developed to survey the type and frequency of injuries that are likely to occur from playing competitive badminton. Two hundred and thirty-one players, ranging from club players to international champions, completed the survey which indicated an injury incidence rate of .09 and .14 injuries per person per year for male and female badminton players resp...

tion, are labelled as sprains ; cases involving different peri-articular and articular structures are also included. Theoretically sprain is considered to be a stretch and partial rupture of ligaments, tendons, or muscles, in, around and near a joint, producing the typical syndrome*. There are two views as to the mechanism of production of the syndrome, namely, the reflex theory, and the mechan...

In a double-blind parallel group randomised study 191 patients with acute sprains and strains of ankle, hip, shoulder or knees were treated with either 400 mg sulindac or 1200 mg ibuprofen per day for 4 days; of these, 176 completed the trial. Spontaneous pain (day and night), pain on active movement, swelling and tenderness were assessed before and after the treatment period along with a physi...

In order to describe accidents at work at a hospital in Northern Portugal and analyze their main impact in the period from 2008 to 2010, we conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study. The information was obtained from the notification records of accidents at work for 387 workers. The highest prevalence levels of accidents referred to superior health technician (56.1%), female workers (81.9...

OBJECTIVE To examine trampoline related injuries resulting in emergency department attendance. METHODS Cases were identified by searching free text descriptions of the circumstances of injury contained in the records of the emergency department of a large city hospital. RESULTS 114 cases were identified for a 12 month period, giving an incidence rate of 108 per 100,000 population per year (...

This installment in Family Practice Management’s series on ICD-10 documentation and coding will focus on the minor trauma family physicians tend to see in an office setting – knee injuries, wrist fractures, bruised fingers, etc. More complicated injuries seen in some rural practice settings, urgent care facilities, or emergency departments are beyond the scope of this article. Injuries are typi...