Back Injuries: Ghost Wounds

Text to Self: Furthermore, it also reminds me of when I feel off the bike when I was little and got a long scar on my leg. Text to World: This is relatable to the world because many people in the world have been injuries in some way at some point in their lives.

Everything hurt, It felt like a million knives were being stabbed into my back. It wasn't turning out to be a very good morning, and it was only going to get worse. It was also the day I would learn to re-walk again. Right here A lot of people have always question me when I say “learn to walk again” they just assume i’m saying it like that because I want the attention. The part they don’t understand was it really was learning how to re-walk again. I had a brand new back, and I didn't know how to use it yet. Everything was tight and it was hard to breath, so I wasn't even sure at one point I would be able to ever move again and be comfortable doing

Growing up, I was a competitive cheerleader but was forced to quit three and a half years ago when I was struck with chronic back pain for the second time in my life. I was pain free for just over a year and a half, and during that time I was involved in cheerleading again. After the pain relapsed, I endured countless needles and numerous procedures. I was home bound and on bed rest for seven months during my junior year of high school, which is considered the most important and determinant year. I wasn’t able to go to school and sit at a desk all day, because the pain was too excruciating. Because of this, my teachers were reluctant to help and didn’t think I deserved to continue their classes with passing grades since I was not in class,

Two years ago on a crisp October afternoon following school, I walked to the training room expecting a normal day for us. There would be the tapping of ankles, wrist, and thumbs, along with rehabilitation exercises and the whines and complains of athletes who would sit in the whirlpool for various injuries. After changing into sports medicine attire and putting my books up I was asked to take a framed object next door to the athletic director’s office. While patiently waiting for him to finish a meeting with

According to yard house from “ A comparison of high school sport injury surveillance data reporting by certified athletic trainer and coaches”, “High school athletes sustain more than 1.4 million injuries annually”. Many of these injuries are caused because public high school do not provide enough professional care for athletes. Some of the reasons that athletes are not provided with right care is because of insurance, proper equipment and educated professionals to treat injuries.

It has been said that when one gets injured, one never realizes it until you look at the wounded body part. No statement is more genuine than that. An individual forgets the details of how they got injured. The if, how, and whys are only noticed later on when you look back and analyze what had occurred. More often than not, a lot of different things are to blame. Could it be the slip and slide, the angle, or just a personal mistake? For some reason, I believe it was the first one, and that could explain why I’m scared of slip and slides.

Problem Statement: In my qualitative evaluation of The Lived Experience of Having a Chronic Wound: A Phenomenologic Study, written by Janice Beitz and Earl Goldberg (2005), I found that the need or rationale for this particular study, as do most qualitative research papers, focused on how or what, as opposed to quantitative studies that focus on asking why?  The problem statement is:

Our spine is made out of vertebrates and soft cushion in between. When the spine weakens, it allows this flexible area to be damaged, allowing the leakage of the gel within the spine to bulge. This is called a Herniated Disc. It can occur at all levels of the spine, where the lumbar spine being the most common. Secondly, this event seldomly occurs in the cervical spine, which is the neck area, and in the upper back, which is part of the thoracic spinal area.

More and more people experience back problems. Often, the real culprit is a herniated disc. Herniated (-- removed HTML --) disc (-- removed HTML --) treatment Venice FL specialist would like people suffering with undue pain in their back to consider seeking out a specialist for more information. A herniated disk is a warning that something is wrong with the rubbery disk that are between the vertebra in the back. The vertebra are the individual bones that join together to make your spine. The spine disks resembles little jelly donuts. For example, the disks have a soft center with a tough exterior. A Herniated disk is a result of the soft center squeezing through a rip to the exterior.

Roughly, 80% of the population will experience lower back pain once in their lifespan, while two-thirds of the population will experience neck pain. As ludicrous as it might appear, the ugly truth about slipped disc complications is that they are increasing at an alarming rate. Back pain and neck pain are the most common reasons of immobility in individuals under 45 years old. It is now very ubiquitous and not only found in elderly, or after a traumatic happening. A slipped disc can happen throughout the entire spine but is most common in the cervical and lumbar area. Inappropriate posture, unwarranted or protracted axial weight-bearing activities are the culprits; in other words, extended sitting or lifting and carrying of hulking objects that cause uneven distribution of weight across your spinal joint or the spinal discs. Over the time, axial loading (sitting or carrying weighty loads) can dehydrate your spinal disc. Dehydration of the

Many of the injuries documented require plastic surgery but due to being in a warzone, plastic surgery is only performed based on the severity of the injury.Although medical practice is increasing throughout the world, some location that are in war zones have a difficult time receiving supplies to treat patients. In countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, amputation is commonly seen in medical centers and will require plastic surgery to make the new appearance not look as deformed. Although plastic surgery is easy to access in the US, many people who, do not have a medical related injury or disease, should not take advantage of the surgery unless they happen to come across a medical related issue for themselves. According to an article called Saving Face, by Jim Atkinson, “We’ve got a severe facial-trauma case to send you, a dog mauling like you’ve never seen before” (Atkinson, 1). Jim Atkinson, author of Saving Face, wrote an article about a two year-old boy who had his face completely destroyed when he was attacked by the family dog. Seven plastic surgeons, six anesthesiologists were called in to help reconstruct this little boy’s

The role of recording is to have a correct way of diagnoses and also select a better way of treatment (10). Inter-vertebral discs are the largest avascular tissues (1,13) but they are metabolically active (10). Thus needed nutrients will be transferred to the cartilage and A.F using the blood vessels surrounding tissues or the body of the lumbar spine through subchondral bone tissue (10). Disruption in normal discs cause pressure. So we will see a decrease in pressure by reduce in height, herniation of the discs and so increase in pressure on annulus (10). With age the central part of the discs will be herniated and that cause slipped discs. Herniated disc at the bottom of the lumbar spine causing pressure on nerves and nerve roots, causing back pain (lumbago) or pain in the legs (sciatica) (8).

Have you ever been through surgery? How did you feel before and after the surgery? The way my knee was cut, it was almost an impossible task. The worry of the latter result was frightening. It was the most terrifying obstacle I have ever been through.

I was 12 years old and 7th grade was just ending. That means it was the start of the gymnastics summer schedule which is 20 hours a week. About two weeks through July my back hurt so much that it hurt to even walk. I didn’t tell a soul because I knew that if I’d told my parents they would’ve made me go to the doctor and the doctor would’ve told me to stop doing gymnastics. I went to practice and tried my hardest and it worked for about three weeks. My efforts to conceal the pain didn’t help much in the long run because eventually my dad made me go to the doctor.

Approximately six years ago, my mother hurt her back lifting a snowmobile. Almost two years after the initial pain went away; she began experiencing more significant problems. I remember a specific instance when we were shopping for my prom dress and she could not stand for more than five minutes without needing to sit down. Financial insecurity postponed getting checked out, but finally discovered she had two herniated disks. My