OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between different types of physical exercise and the risk of subsequent fall-related injury. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study of the home-dwelling elderly. METHODS A population sample of home-dwelling subjects aged 85 years or older (n = 512) in northern Finland participated in the study. Baseline data were collected by home-nursing staff through posta...

In NSW, fall-related injury costs the health system more than any other single cause of injury. A public health surveillance database containing information routinely recorded by the Ambulance Service of NSW was used to define the epidemiology and characteristics of fall-related calls in the Sydney metropolitan area in 2008. The dataset contained 37488 fall-related calls, representing a crude r...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the distribution of fall related injury in older people hospitalised for acute treatment of injury, in order to direct priorities for prevention. SETTING A follow up study was conducted in the Brisbane Metropolitan Region of Australia during 1998. METHODS Medical records of patients aged 65 years and over hospitalised with a fall related injury were re...

BACKGROUND Short-distance falls, such as from a bed, are often falsely reported scenarios in child abuse. In attempting to differentiate between abusive and nonabusive injury, knowledge of factors that affect injury risk in falls could prove useful. OBJECTIVES To assess the biomechanics associated with simulated short-distance falls in children (one fall scenario, without attempting to maximi...

OBJECTIVES Hospital discharge data (HDD) in many health systems do not capture the date of injury (DOI); the absence of this date hinders researchers' ability to distinguish repeat from incident injury admissions. Various approaches using somewhat arbitrary criteria have been explored to increase the accuracy of incident injury identification. However, these approaches have not been validated a...

Physicians disagree on several issues regarding head injury in infants and children, including the potential lethality of a short-distance fall, a lucid interval in an ultimately fatal head injury, and the specificity of retinal hemorrhage for inflicted trauma. There is scant objective evidence to resolve these questions, and more information is needed. The objective of this study was to determ...

Aim and objective: The goal of our research was to find traumatic brain injuries in patients who had a history falling CT scan. Material methodology: Radiology Department DHQ Hospital, Jhelum, conducted this prospective cross-sectional study for 3 months. It includes total 79 presented with fall. included 35 males & 26 women, ages ranging from one ninety-five yrs. frequency findings assesse...

OBJECTIVE Experimental data indicate that when using a sit harness alone, any major fall during rock climbing may cause life-threatening thoraco-lumbar hyperextension trauma or "head down position" during suspension. To clarify the actual influence of the type of harness on the pattern and severity of injury, accidents involving a major fall in a climbing harness were analyzed retrospectively. ...