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The Center for Wound Healing, Inc. has changed its name to RestorixHealth, giving further distinction to their expertise in developing and managing comprehensive wound care centers of excellence. Tarrytown, NY (PRWEB) May 01, 2013 The Center for Wound Healing, Inc., a leading developer and manager of comprehensive wound care treatment centers, has renamed its company RestorixHealth. As a rebranding effort to differentiate RestorixHealth’s state-of-the art wound care centers in the...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Children and adults alike love the adrenaline rush that comes with amusement rides. However, while these racers, twisters, spinners and droppers can send a wave of exciting emotions running through the body, they can be dangerous as well. According to new research from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH), nearly 93,000 children were treated in US emergency rooms between 1990 and 2010...
EVIDENCE-BASED CLINICAL OUTCOMES ESTABLISHED IN PROCELLERA® WOUND CARE STUDIES CHANDLER, Ariz., May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vomaris Innovations, Inc., a regenerative medical device company specializing in microcurrent field generating technologies for the wound care market, announced that eight scientific and clinical abstracts on its flagship product Procellera(®) will be presented at the 26th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) May 2 - 5, 2013 at the Denver Convention...
Orthopaedic surgeons offer tips for avoiding baseball, golf and lacrosse injuries ROSEMONT, Ill., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's spring, and the fields, courts and courses are teeming with sports enthusiasts. But after months of indoor activity, how do you ensure that the exuberance brought on by the sun and warmer temperatures doesn't result in injury? Baseball, golf and lacrosse are popular spring sports. And while outdoor exercise is advantageous, these sports do...
MOCNYC’s NBA Injury Report, based on data from NBA.com, highlights the most influential injuries in the NBA this week. For the LA Lakers, injuries to Bryant and Nash maybe crucial in the Playoffs. New York, NY (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 Two of Lakers leading players are injured, based on data from NBA.com and ESPN.com. Manhattan Orthopaedic Care offers detailed NBA injury watch analysis. As they move to the playoffs, the NBA games bring a lot of dramatic moments for the LA Lakers. The team...
Young athletes may be at risk for throwing injuries during summer baseball season CHICAGO, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As summer draws near, little league baseball and softball teams are starting to form all across the country. Overuse injuries are increasingly common in young athletes, particularly those involved in throwing sports, including baseball. To help young athletes minimize injury this summer, Northwestern Medicine(®) sports medicine experts offer their advice on...
Biologists at UC San Diego have identified eight genes never before suspected to play a role in wound healing that are called into action near the areas where wounds occur. Their discovery, detailed this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, was made in the laboratory fruit fly Drosophila. But the biologists say many of the same genes that regulate biological processes in the hard exoskeleton, or cuticle, of Drosophila also control processes in human skin. That makes them attractive...
A multicenter study led by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine shows that mild traumatic brain injury after blast exposure produces inflammation, oxidative stress and gene activation patterns akin to disorders of memory processing such as Alzheimer's disease. Their findings were recently reported in the online version of the Journal of Neurotrauma. Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (TBI) has become an important issue in combat casualty care, said senior...
Neurosurgeons from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center recount their experiences in treating patients with head and spine injuries during the epic April 2011 tornado disaster. The authors focus on injuries sustained on April 27th of that year. Details on these cases and a discussion on the necessity of disaster preparedness are found in "Neurosurgical injuries resulting from the 2011 tornadoes in Alabama: the experience at the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
Largest clinical study of its kind Young athletes who specialize in one sport and train intensively have a significantly higher risk of stress fractures and other severe overuse injuries, even when compared with other injured athletes, according to the largest clinical study of its kind. For example, young athletes who spent more hours per week than their age playing one sport – such as a 12-year-old who plays tennis 13 or more hours a week – were 70 percent more likely to...
