A medical institution possesses both public and private inter­ ests. However, recently, the public side of things has been em­ phasized because medical practice can involve invading the hu­ man body for treatment. As a result of this emphasis on public interests, medical law stipulates symbolic regulations on a hos­ pital's duty to prevent infections and the duty of medical per­ sonnel to provi...

Dance involves exemplary sensory-motor control, which is subserved by sophisticated neural processing at the spinal cord and brain level. Such neural processing is altered in the presence of nociception and pain, and the adaptations within the central nervous system that are known to occur with persistent nociception or pain have clear implications for movement and, indeed, risk of further inju...

BACKGROUND In November 2008, a surgical team from the Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk, the Netherlands, was deployed in Afghanistan for three months to attend in the army hospital of Kandahar.During their stay, four incidents of armored personnel carriers encountering an improvised explosive device were assessed. In each incident, two soldiers were involved, whose injuries were strikingly similar....

Increasing evidence suggests that the basic foundations of the self lie in the brain systems that represent the body. Specific sensorimotor stimulation has been shown to alter the bodily self. However, little is known about how disconnection of the brain from the body affects the phenomenological sense of the body and the self. Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients who exhibit massively reduced som...

The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the injury characteristics, severity, and outcome between underweight and normal-weight patients hospitalized for the treatment of all kinds of trauma injury.This study was based on a level I trauma center Taiwan.The detailed data of 640 underweight adult trauma patients with a body mass index (BMI) of <18.5 kg/m and 6497 normal-weight adult ...

This covers a series of lectures delivered by the late Mr. Chance in the j^ear 1852 and subsequently at the City Orthopaedic Hospital, including many illustrations drawn by the late author "on the wood" from casts of cases, and brought up to date by the editor. It is written in a pleasant scientific style, and we note quotations from the late Dr. J. C. Prichard, of Bristol, on Researches into t...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of injury in English professional rugby league over a period of four playing seasons. METHODS All injuries that were received by players during match play were recorded. Each injury was classified according to site, type, player position, team playing for, activity at the time of injury, and time off as a result of injury. RESULTS The overall injury ra...