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• Broken Bones & Injuries
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Broken Bones & Injuries
A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress, or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis, bone cancer, or osteogenesis imperfecta, where the fracture is then properly termed a pathologic fracture.
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• Diseases & Conditions
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Diseases & Conditions
A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function that affects part or all of an organism. ... Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.
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• Arthritis
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Arthritis
A disease causing painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.
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• Tumors
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Tumors
A swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.
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• Sports Injuries & Prevention
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Sports Injuries & Prevention
Sports injuries result from acute trauma or repetitive stress associated with athletic activities. Sports injuries can affectbones or soft tissue (ligaments, muscles, tendons). Professional dancers are increasingly recognized as performing athletes, and many of the treatments and preventivemeasures utilized in sports medicine are now applied to dance-related injuries.
It is also important to remember that many types of injuries that affect athletes may also occur in workers in certainoccupations; for example, many people in the building trades develop tennis elbow or golfer's elbow. The principles ofsports medicine can be applied in the treatment of most common musculoskeletal injuries.
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• Children
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Children
A child bone fracture is a medical condition in which a bone of a child (a person younger than the age of 18) is cracked or broken. About 15% of all injuries inchildren are fracture injuries. Bone fractures in children are different from adult bone fractures because a child's bones are still growing.
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• Bone Health
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Bone Health
All bones are composed of the cells of life included in the mineral-bearing organic matrix which composes the fabric osseous. The bone is not a material uniformly full, but rather has some spaces between its hard elements.
The hard external layer of bone is composed of compact fabric of bone, of alleged because of its minimal gaps and spaces. This fabric gives to bones their soft, white, and full aspect, and explains 80% of all the mass of bone of a skeleton of adult.
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• Health & Safety
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Health & Safety
Occupational health should aim at the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations; the prevention amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities and, to summarize: the adaptation of work to man and of each man to his job.
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