E ach spring, the editors of Sports Health have the pleasure of selecting the winning manuscripts for the annual T. David Sisk Awards. These awards commemorate the life of Dr T. David Sisk, our colleague and mentor, who chaired the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Board during the development of Sports Health. Dr Sisk enthusiastically fostered the deve...

a boat and gave a wrench to his right hip and leg : after leaving the boat, he walked about 300 yards to the railway station with moderate ease. On the same day he came to Indore by rail, and walked from the station to a friend's house in the city, about a mile distant, with some, but not excessive, pain. That night he suffered from pain in the stomach, for which he took some opium with the res...

The paper presents an analysis of the concepts leadership in Lüshi Chunqiu, a 3rd century B.C. text which integrates elements various schools political thought pre-imperial China and thus can be considered as representative period. uses framework value-based (VBL) borrowed from modern organisational psychology studies. Ancient Chinese are analysed using textual evidence Chunqiu three VBL dimens...

Chiropractic is a large and well-established health care profession in the United States. In this overview, we briefly examine the development of chiropractic from humble and contentious beginnings to its current state at the crossroads of alternative and mainstream medicine. Chiropractic has taken on many of the attributes of an established profession, improving its educational and licensing s...

dear Noel Coward. Then I played in Macbeth. I was the apparition and Duncan's child. I had, of course, to be killed, and it was funny when as the apparition wearing a silken veil, and with my throat gashed, the veil caught fire at the cauldron and had to be quenched by the witches. Ha, Ha! Those were the times." I declined a cigarette, pointing out with some regret that I had given them up. "Ye...

in the Amazonian medicine ayahuasca—can produce similar results. Nor is taking a drug even necessary. Investigators seem to agree that the salutary effects come not from the compounds themselves but from the spiritual epiphany they produce, so nonpharmacologic ways of achieving the same outcome should be just as beneficial. For example, many people use meditation to attain a transcendental stat...

Following the reports of Reese and Peters (1952) and of Shy and McEachem (1951) that A.C.T.H. was of benefit in the relief of dystrophia myotonica by increasing muscle strength, it was decided to try the effect of A.C.T.H. on a further group of patients. The results obtained form the basis of the present report. Case 1 is reported in detail, the remainder briefly. Case Reports Case 1.-Mr. S. is...