Questions tagged [injury]
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Brain injury involving no deceleration of the head
Many articles explain that the mechanism of a brain injury is via the relative motion of the brain and the skull due to acceleration, which may cause impacts to the brain with the inside of the skull. ...
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Which speed is fatal / dangerous for a human body? [closed]
E.g. during a (extremely fast) motorcycle ride without protective equipment
in the atmosphere (i.e., not in a vacuum)
acceleration is not an issue
I'm looking for insights about how much air ...
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Is it actually possible to cut off someone's hand?
In Punisher MAX (a comic book) a character's hand is sliced off in a single swing (seen here - warning graphic content).
Is this actually possible for a human to accomplish this?
If so how much force ...
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Mixed martial art fighters, and "not having a chin"
I am far from an expert in the medical sciences, but there is conventional wisdom that as an athlete in combat sports gets knocked out (concussed or otherwise) for the first time, it opens the ...
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With blast injuries, how much of the damage is from rapid decompression?
If a person suffers exposure to a high explosive or low explosive blast, how much of their injuries will be due to the sudden decompression immediately after the shockwave?
Sudden decompression can ...
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How to interpret injury rates published in a sports medicine journal?
In the following article abstract: 200-400m breaststroke event dominate among knee overuse injuries in elite swimming athletes the authors indicate
Overuse injuries (0.22 / 1000 h) were more frequent ...
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A swollen body organ filled with fluid
I was wondering how shall I describe one's foot, knee etc. which due to some injuries in sport has swollen and is filled with fluid.
It is most of the time painful and can cause you feel uncomfortable....
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What is difference between wet and dry gangrene? [closed]
I have studied in pathology class and my professor talked about these types of injury but i'm not sure how to distinguish between these 2 terms.
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What's the lowest height falling from which into clear deep water can theoretically cause any injury on impact?
I'm researching it for a computer game mechanics change (the game is free and open source, I'm not doing it for profit). The question is: at what height it is theoretically possible for an average and ...
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What sort of damage would someone get from a 80ft drop?
I'm currently writing a book where one of my characters falls from about an 80-90 foot drop onto a solid stone surface onto her back.
She's an average 32 female with a healthy diet and weight. She ...
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Does eating any kind of seafood lengthen the healing time of an injury?
I have heard multiple times in my life that eating seafood would lengthen healing time of an injury, such as a large cut or a broken bone, and possibly make it worse. I heard this mainly from eastern ...
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How difficult is it to actually break someone's neck?
As a child I was told "if you break your neck, you die". I was also exposed to people who are paralyzed, due to spinal injuries.
So clearly, it happens.
In action movies and martial arts, there's ...
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Publication on the contamination of used needels by addicts
I am looking for scientific publications on the likelyhood to get infected with a specific disease by used needles which were thrown away by careless addicts.
Which viruses can be found statistically ...
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location of injury occurence and are these injuries logical? [closed]
It is essential to the plot of my story for My character (human) to be injured. I know her injuries which are, her leg and right arm bones are either fractured or broken in different places. Her right ...
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Can your finger bones grow thicker after extreme pressure or use?
I've noticed that after I put extreme, ridiculous pressure on my fingers one night, my fingers for the last week look really chunky, a lot rougher and thicker. I feel like it's the bones themselves, ...
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