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Fishel, Marissa. "Collegiate Student- Athletes Knowledge of Injury and Injury Prevention." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1380613284.
Full textPalmer-Green, Debbie S. "Injury epidemiology and injury prevention in English youth rugby union." Thesis, University of Bath, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520932.
Full textLidström, Olof, and Oscar Edling. "Injury prevention in vehicle side collisions." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknikvetenskap (SCI), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276669.
Full textI USA orsakas cirka 30\% av alla trafikdödsfall av sidokollisioner. I Europa är motsvarande siffra mellan 28% och 38%. Vidare rapporterar Shanghai United Road Traffic Safety Scientific Research Center (SHUFO) att mer än hälften av dödsfallen vid sidokollisioner är till följd av huvud och nackskador. Det finns befintliga skyddssystem för att minimera risken för huvud och nackskador vid dessa typer av kollisioner. Vanligtvis används airbags konfigurationerna kombinationssystem (combo) eller gardinsystem (IC). En kombinationssystem utlöses framåt från ryggstödet för att skydda passagerarens överkropp. För att skydda huvudet använder detta system en tilläggskudde, som vecklas ut från den sätesmonterade kudden upp mot huvudet. Nackdelen med detta system är systemet har begränsat täckningsområde. Gardinlösningar fungerar vanligtvis i tandem med en sätesmonterad krockkudde, vilket skyddar passagerarnas överkropp, likt kombinationssystemet. Gardinlösningen skyddar huvudet genom en uppblåsbar gardin som utlöses längs fordonets innervägg. Till skillnad från kombinationssystemet har ett gardinsystem förmågan att täcka en större yta. Nackdelen är dock att denna befinner sig längre bort från passagerna, vilket tillåter huvudet att röra sig relativt överkroppen. I denna rapport jämfördes kombinations- och gardinsystemen. En övergripande jämförelse gjordes med hjälp av data från Euro NCAP. Resultatet av denna jämförelse visade att kombinationssystemet ger något bättre skydd för huvudet i en kollision riktad 90 grader från sidan, medan gardinlösningen erbjuder bättre skydd för bröstkorgen då kollisionen är vinklad. Pisksnärtsskador (Whiplash) är den vanligaste trafikskadan i Sverige. Värt att notera är dock att dessa sällan har dödlig utgång. De flesta whiplash-skador uppstår vid kollisioner bakifrån, då huvudet rycker tillbaka. Denna rörelse kan inträffa även vid sidokollisioner, vilket innebär att även dessa typer av kollisioner kan resultera i pisksnärtsskador. En jämförelse mellan piskssnärtskade-effekten hos gardinsystemet och kombinationssystemet gjordes med hjälp av accelerometerdata som erhållits från NHTSA:s databas och en modifierad implementering av NIC-kriteriet. Resultaten indikerade att det finns en risk för whiplash-skador vid sidokollisioner och att olika bilar har olika förutsättningar för att passagerarna ska drabbas av dessa typer av skador. Ett definitivt svar på vilket av krockkuddesystemen som erbjuder bäst skydd mot pisksnärtsskador kunde inte finnas med den erhållna datan.\\
Keller, Kristen Jo. "Challenges to Secondary Brain Injury Prevention in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/338712.
Full textVan, der Westhuizen Gysbert. "Quad bike injuries and injury prevention opportunities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2877.
Full textNuhu, Assuman. "Soccer injury surveillance and implementation of an injury prevention programme in Rwanda." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28398.
Full textHägglund, Martin. "Epidemiology and prevention of football injuries." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Socialmedicin och folkhälsovetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8500.
Full textSerienumret i serien Linköping University medical dissertation är fel. Det korrkta numret är 988. The serial number in the series Linköping University medical dissertation is incorrect. The correct number is 988.
Griffin, Stephanie Christine. "Economic Evaluation Of Injury And Injury Prevention Interventions In The U.S. Fire Service." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/332672.
Full textFrew, Kira. "Community-driven injury prevention in youth female soccer." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44931.
Full textMacKay, Gordon M. "The mechanism and prevention of injury in soccer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3920/.
Full textRogers, Emily Ann. "Assistive Exoskeleton for Injury Prevention During Downhill Walking." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14398554.
Full textCollings, Tyler. "Lower Limb Injury Prevention in Elite Women's Football." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/419487.
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Vassallo, Michael. "The prevention of falls in hospital." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268641.
Full textBromley, Sally. "Epidemiology, injury and illness prevention in Olympic combat sports." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2018. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166415.
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Smigmator, Steven. "Prevention of adolescent sports-related traumatic brain injury education." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527416.
Full textBaset, M. U. "Road traffic injury prevention in children in rural Bangladesh." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2013. http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/22643/.
Full textShchudrova, T. S. "Prevention of gentamicin-induced kidney injury by pineal tetrapeptide." Thesis, БДМУ, 2017. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/17329.
Full textRexing, Christen Jean. "Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/273759.
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Annually firearms kill more than 30,000 individuals and injure more than 50,000 individuals, resulting in costs of $45 million to over $1 billion in the United States. Traditionally firearms were addressed as a criminal justice problem, but for more than 30 years, public health and injury prevention specialists have worked to address the problem of firearm injuries through surveillance, education, research, and laws. Firearm legislation is multijurisdictional across the federal, state, and local governments, but the majority of activity is at the state levels. Firearm injury prevention efforts must navigate a politically diverse arena dominated by social regulatory politics in order to affect change. This study presents newly analyzed data on seven firearms laws: child access prevention, minimum age to purchase/possess a handgun, stand your ground, large capacity ammunition limits, Saturday night specials and assault weapons bans. A goal of the study was to create a 50 states longitudinal dataset in order to investigate the relationship between internal state political and demographics characteristics and firearm policy diffusion. The study findings are presented across three manuscripts, which address the trends of enactment of the laws, the analysis of the six gun control laws, and an analysis of one permissive firearm law (stand your ground laws). A panel data set was created from publicly available sources for each state from 1993 to 2010. General Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to evaluate the impact of citizen pressures, lobby pressures, legislative characteristics, and demographic data on the adoption of the seven selected laws. Study findings identified waves of adoption of the firearm laws across politically and demographically similar states in the early study years (1993-94) and the later study years (2005-10). States with Democratic state governments were more likely to pass gun control laws while states with Republican state governments were more likely to pass stand your ground laws. Poverty was also a statistically significant variable for the passage of the laws: states with lower poverty levels were more likely to pass gun control laws while states with higher poverty levels were more likely to pass stand your ground laws. However, aside from legislation to ensure consistency with federal law, most states are not responding to the public call for regulation as measured by the enactment of the selected laws. Instead, a trend of permissive firearms laws is rapidly spreading across the 50 states. Firearm injury prevention advocates should not be deterred by political environments. Rather, they should respond to cues to optimize change for injury prevention. Understanding mechanisms for firearm policy adoption, such as the role of legislative characteristics may help researchers and firearm injury prevention advocates focus limited resources to introduce bills in policy-friendly states. This dissertation contributes to the firearm injury prevention literature by applying policy diffusion theories and analysis techniques to firearm injury prevention efforts. Findings support the literature that internal state political and demographic characteristics guide the adoption of firearm laws.
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DiStefano, Lindsay Jordan Padua Darin A. "The effects of a pediatric ACL injury prevention program." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2465.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 3, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Interdisciplinary Human Movement Science School of Medicine." Discipline: Human Movement Science; Department/School: Medicine.
Bialercowski, Christine, Sean Campbell, Sara Falkner, Jessica Owen, Alex Ward, Donna MacIntyre, and Tyler Dumont. "Neuromuscular Training & ACL Injury Prevention: A Systematic Review." Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88.
Full textThis is a Systematic Review Presentation titled - "Neuromuscular Training & ACL Injury Prevention: A Systematic Review", created by Master of Physical Therapy Graduating Students, University of British Columbia - 2006, Presented on September 14-15, 2006 , Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hall, Margaret. "Process evaluation of a child pedestrian injury prevention intervention." Thesis, Curtin University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/99.
Full textHall, Margaret. "Process evaluation of a child pedestrian injury prevention intervention." Curtin University of Technology, School of Public Health, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11727.
Full textCPIPP Grades 2, 3 and 4 curricular. Evidence in student work samples demonstrated that teachers taught 76% (seven of nine lessons) of the Grades 2 and 3 curricular, and 68% (six of the nine lessons) of the Grade 4 curricular. Teacher self-reported implementation rates using a 'lesson log' were 88%, 81% and 60% respectively for the three curricular. Teachers reported practising road crossing on a real road in 21% (one lesson) of six designated crossing practise lessons in 1996 and 36% (two lessons) in 1997.Multivariate analyses revealed students pedestrian safety knowledge was significantly associated with teacher implementation of the classroom curriculum. This relationship was one of dose-response. It demonstrated students who, each year, received at least 7 lessons (81% or more) of the three CPIPP curricular showed a greater improvement in pedestrian safety knowledge than those students who received a lower dose of the curriculum. Significant effects on pedestrian safety knowledge were also observed for students who, each year, practised crossing a real road in at least one lesson (17%) of the curriculum. The relationship between implementation and student road crossing and road playing behaviours was not one of dose-response.Student work samples, teacher lesson logs and to a lesser extent teacher self-report questionnaires, were found to be valid measures of curriculum implementation. This study also found that implementation of the CPIPP curriculum achieved a modest improvement in student pedestrian safety knowledge and possibly arrested the decline of safe road crossing behaviour. It also demonstrated that classroom pedestrian safety education alone, while necessary, is not sufficient to positively modify children's road crossing behaviours.The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of measuring teacher implementation. A process evaluation is ++
essential to determine if an intervention has been implemented and to help explain the impact this level of implementation had on program outcomes. However, more research needs to explore the link between other factors in the process of curriculum delivery and program effects. Further research also needs to determine how to develop and measure an intervention that includes the key procedures and content that theoretically promote the desired behaviour, but also allows teachers to make adjustments to the program to suit their teaching style and the needs of their students.Child pedestrian injury is a complex problem that requires a multifaceted intervention, of which a classroom curriculum can form part.
Heiden, Erin Ose. "Injuries among individuals with pre-existing spinal cord injury: understanding injury patterns, burdens, and prevention." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1624.
Full textJacobsson, Jenny. "Towards systematic prevention of athletics injuries : Use of clinical epidemiology for evidence-based injury prevention." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-81400.
Full textGustafsson, Robin. "Prevention av överbelastningsskador i axelleden hos elithandbollsspelare : En åtta veckors interventionsstudie under tävlingssäsong." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-4110.
Full textBackground: Shoulder injuries are common in sport. In particular there is a clear relationship between shoulder injuries and sports that includes hand- and arm movements over the head, for example handball. In handball, the shoulder joints are exposed to hard physical contact as well as high loads during repetitive throwing which puts high demands on the structures inside and surrounding the shoulder joint. The prevalence of current or previous shoulder injuries is reported to be between 58 to 75 % in studies of handball players. Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate how a preventive training program aimed at risk factors for shoulder injuries in the shoulder joint, performed during eight weeks in the final stage of competitive season, affected the prevalence of overuse injuries in the shoulder joint for elite handball players in Sweden. How is the prevalence of overuse injuries and severe overuse injuries in the shoulder joints of elite Swedish handball players affected by the implementation of an eight-week preventive training program? Method: The study was of a quasi-experimental design which consisted of six measurements taken during eight weeks. Nine elite handball teams active in the middle regions of Sweden were recruited, from which 110 of the 162 available players were included. Exclusions during and after the study period reduced the number of players. The teams were divided into an intervention (n = 48) or control group (n = 32) through stratified sampling, with mean age (± SD) 22.0 (3.3) and 21.9 (4.0), respectively. The intervention group was assigned a preventive exercise program consisting of three exercises with the purpose of improving riskfactors for shoulder injuries for overhead athletes. The control group was not assigned any intervention. The training program was evaluated by analyzing the prevalence of overuse and severe overuse symptoms in the shoulder measured with a modified version of The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Centre Overuse Injury Questionnaire. Results: A total of 455 overuse symptoms were reported by 42 players (53 %) of which 95 symptoms in 18 players (23 %) were severe. The prevalence of overuse injuries decreased in both the intervention and the control group from 42 % (95 % CI 28-56 %) to 25 % (95 % CI 13-37 %) and 53 % (95 % CI 36-70 %) to 31 % (95 % CI 15-47 %), respectively. The prevalence of severe overuse injuries decreased in both the intervention and the control group from 15 % (95 % CI 5-25 %) to 6 % (95 % CI -1-13 %) and 19 % (95 % CI 5-32 %) to 13 % (95 % CI 1-24 %), respectively. There was no significant difference between the groups regarding prevalence after the intervention of eight weeks. Severity score consistently decreased with a significant difference over time (p = 0.001) for both groups, with a slightly greater improvement in the control group. There was a tendency towarda difference between the groups (p = 0.064) regarding the severity score. Conclusions: The results of this study show that the prevalence of severe overuse injuries in the shoulder joint of elite handball players in Sweden might be reduced to some extent by performing a preventive exercise program two or more times per week for eight weeks. The prevalence of severe symptoms of overload injury decreased to a slightly lower value for the intervention group. The difference of prevalence of overuse injuries within the intervention group, stratified by the number of executed preventive exercise programs (<2 and ≥2), was significant (p = 0.044). Severity score decreased in both groups during the study. However, there was a tendency to a significant difference between the groups (p = 0.064), where the control group improved slightly more in spite of a higher value when measured at week 8. Shoulder injury and dysfunctions of overhead athletes can be caused by various factors, which means that the riskfactors for each of these conditions may vary. It is therefore important to highlight that the effects of a training program may be different at the individual level compared with the results at group level.
Fuller, Melanie. "Injury surveillance and monitoring during transitions in dance training and careers including end-user perceptions towards training load practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/207339/1/Melanie_Fuller_Thesis.pdf.
Full textWahman, Kerstin. "Cardiovascular disease prevention after spinal cord injury : a new challenge /." Stockholm, 2010. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2010/978-91-7409-936-2/.
Full textSchulman, Carl I. "Prevention of Elderly Pedestrian Injury - A Comprehensive Approach and Analysis." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/568.
Full textNuhu, Assuman. "Factors influencing implementation of soccer injury prevention strategies in Rwanda." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2008. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4867_1271621548.
Full textBackground: Three epidemiological studies conducted in Rwanda have highlighted that many people at different levels in the community of soccer do not implement accepted control measures for reducing the risk of injuries. However, little is known about what soccer community members themselves know about injury prevention. Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify perceptions of factors influencing the implementation of soccer injury prevention strategies in Rwanda.
Feely, Shawn. "Competencies and training needs of injury prevention practitioners in Manitoba." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54553.pdf.
Full textPeate, W. F., Gerry Bates, Karen Lunda, Smitha Francis, and Kristen Bellamy. "Core strength: A new model for injury prediction and prevention." BioMed Central, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610195.
Full textHines, Michelle C., and Brian Erstad. "Prophylactic Levetiracetam for the Prevention of Posttraumatic Brain Injury Seizures." The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614263.
Full textSpecific Aims: Guidelines developed by the Brain Trauma Foundation recommend the use of prophylactic anticonvulsants, particularly phenytoin, for the prevention of early posttraumatic seizures for patients with severe traumatic brain injuries. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of levetiracetam, a newer anticonvulsant, for posttraumatic seizure prevention in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Methods: This study was approved by the University of Arizona Medical Center Institutional Review Board. The project consists of a retrospective cohort analysis from January 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011. We have abstracted data from all patients with traumatic brain injuries over this time period from the University of Arizona Medical Center Trauma Registry, and have matched these patients with their records in the pharmacy database to determine who received levetiracetam versus no prophylaxis. Patients younger than 18 years of age, pregnant women, patients who were deemed to be nonsalvageable, and patients who had a seizure prior to initiation of levetiracetam were excluded from the study. The following data was collected: age, gender, ethnicity, mechanism of injury, injury severity score, ED GCS, ED SBP, ED pulse, ED RR, blood alcohol level, ICU length of stay, number of ventilator days, hospital length of stay, FIM score at discharge (totals, and by component), diagnosis, surgery and complication type, anticonvulsant given, type of beta-blocker given, maximum and minimum dose used, cumulative doses given, and whether there exists a known prior history of anticonvulsant use. All data were recorded without patient identifiers and have been kept confidential. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate a relationship between other data collected from the patients’ medical records and seizure occurrence. Chi Square or Fisher's Exact test will be used in the final analysis to compare the effectiveness of levetiracetam versus no prophylaxis to prevent posttraumatic brain injury seizures. Significance is defined as p<0.05 for all analyses. Main Results: The results are pending the final data analysis. Conclusion: To be determined.
Forrest, Mitchell Robert Loaring. "Exercise-based injury prevention for community-level adolescent pace bowlers." Thesis, Forrest, Mitchell Robert Loaring (2020) Exercise-based injury prevention for community-level adolescent pace bowlers. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2020. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/56720/.
Full textLi, Zhaoyu. "Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospitalised Adult Patients: A Case Study." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/416313.
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Gyllensvärd, Harald. "Health Economic Aspects of Injury Prevention at the Municipal Level." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för samhällsmedicin, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-106227.
Full textBlackman, Nicole. "Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Programming for Canada's Indigenous Population." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5165.
Full textDingli, Kelly M. "Engaging delinquent adolescents in a school-based injury prevention program." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101513/4/Kelly_Dingli_Thesis.pdf.
Full textBauer, Michelle. "Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives of their Children’s Outdoor Risky Play." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36702.
Full textHolt, Rachel. "Defining the epidemiology of severe burn injury in Greater Manchester." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/defining-the-epidemiology-of-severe-burn-injury-in-greater-manchester(c71707a8-6e9b-47eb-9003-c6ef86c54bbe).html.
Full textNasr, Haithem. "Facilitators and barriers influencing the implementation of injury prevention strategies among clubs at the University of the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6597.
Full textIntroduction: The majority of University of the Western Cape coaches believe that in most sport codes, many female and male athletes get injured at least once a season. Consequently, occurrence of injuries signifies many set-backs in any team sports. University of the Western Cape sports injury intervention and rehabilitation strategies are relatively under-developed, and have not been systematically implemented, despite their proven effectiveness. However, due to intensive training, local and national league competitions, the number of injured athletes at University of the Western Cape has increased, and so delays of athletes’ recovery are caused. Thus, it is assumed that University of the Western Cape efforts may have lack of the necessary injury precautions on prevention and rehabilitation such as proactive injury treatment, paying special attention to the therapeutic process, including other necessary mechanisms. The current study has explored facilitating factors and some of the barriers on the implementation of injury prevention strategies, and determined the effectiveness of rehabilitation within University of the Western Cape sport teams in views of athletes, coaches, and medical staff. Methods: This study used a sequential exploratory design which entailed an initial phase of quantitative data collection and analysis, followed by a phase of qualitative data collection and analysis. This study used a close-ended survey and semi-structured interviews to identify the barriers and facilitators associated with the implementation of injury prevention strategies among sports clubs at the University of the Western Cape. Results: Data were collected on the general knowledge of players and team coaches about injury prevention as well as their sources of information regarding injury prevention. Football players were 49.5% while 15.8% were basketball players in this study. Cricket players were 10.9% while rugby players were 9.9%. Sources of players’ knowledge of injury prevention included doctor/physiotherapist, coaches and the media. Sources of coaches’ knowledge of injury prevention included doctor/physiotherapist, media and seminars. Most players and coaches agreed that there is a greater chance of sustaining an injury during a competitive match than during training. Players and coaches also agree that the risk of injury is reduced by wearing preferred protective clothing and thoroughly warming up and stretching prior to training or competition. Barriers to the implementation of an injury prevention strategy include not having enough time, being too tired after training, no advice given on such techniques, the notion that nobody else does it and lack of proper equipment. Facilitators of an injury prevention strategy include availability of medical staff (doctors and physiotherapists), players’ understanding of the coach’s instructions, and injury prevention facilities at University of the Western Cape, services accessibility and quality, injury discovery and follow-up, and injury prevention policy at University of the Western Cape. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made: (i) Intervention directed at players and coaches in the form of health promotion programmes through education to increase their knowledge and support in implementation of all prevention strategies either in training or in competition; (ii) Governing bodies at University of the Western Cape should develop and disseminate written sports safety policies and guidelines and supervise clubs in their development programmes.
Welch, Mariah Karyn, and Mariah Karyn Welch. "Pediatric Providers Knowledge on Unintentional Childhood Injury." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626653.
Full textO’Brien, James. "Enhancing the implementation of injury prevention exercise programs in professional soccer." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2016. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154215.
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Aare, Magnus. "Prevention of Head Injuries - focusing Specifically on Oblique Impacts." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3672.
Full textThe massive number of injuries sustained in trafficaccidents is a growing problem worldwide, especially indeveloping countries. In 1998, more than one million peoplewere killed in traffic accidents worldwide, while about tentimes as many people were injured. Injuries to the centralnervous system and in particular to the headare especiallycritical to human life. This thesis contains five researchpapers looking at head injuries and head protection, proposingnew and more efficient ways of protecting the head, especiallyin traffic accidents.
In order to define the national dimensions of the patternsof injuries incurred in motorcycle and moped accidents inSweden, a statistical survey was performed on data spanning a13-year period (Paper A). In Sweden, 27,100 individualsreceived in-patient care for motorcycle and moped accidentinjuries between 1987 and 1999. The motorcycle and moped injuryrate reduced in the second half of the study period, so toowere the total number of days of treatment per year. Males hadeight times the incidence of injuries of females. Head injurieswere the single most frequent diagnosis, followed by fracturesof the lower limbs. Concussion was the most frequent headinjury. These statistics clearly show the need for better headinjury prevention systems.
According to the statistics, the most common type of impactto the head in motorcycle and moped accidents is an obliqueimpact. Oblique impacts generate rotations of the head, whichare a common cause of the most severe head injuries. Thereforea new test rig was constructed to reproduce oblique impacts toa helmeted dummy head, simulating those occurring in real lifeaccidents (Paper B). The new test rig was shown to provideuseful data at speeds of up to 50 km/h and with impact anglesvarying from purely tangential to purely radial. Thisinnovative test rig appears to provide an accurate method formeasuring accelerations in oblique impacts to helmets.
When testing the performances of motorcycle helmets,discrepancies are usually seen in the test results. In order toevaluate these discrepancies, the finite element method (FEM)was used for simulations of a few oblique helmet impacts (PaperC). Amongthe parameters studied, the coefficients of frictionbetween the impacting surface and the helmet and between thehead and the helmet had the most significant influence on therotational accelerations. Additionally, a thinner andconsequently also weaker shell and a weaker liner, providedbetter protection for the impacts studied.
Since there are no generally accepted global injurythresholds for oblique impacts to the human head, a study wasdesigned to propose new injury tolerances accounting for bothtranslations and rotations of the head (Paper D). In thatstudy, FE models of (a) a human head, (b) a Hybrid III dummyhead, and (c) the experimental helmet were used. Differentcriteria were proposed for different impact scenarios. Both thetranslational and the rotational effects were found to beimportant when proposing a predictor equation for the strainlevels experienced by the human brain in simulated impacts tothe head.
In order to reduce the level of head injuries in society andto better understand helmet impacts from different aspect, aballistic impact was also studied (Paper E). The effects ofdifferent helmet shell stiffness and different angles ofimpacts were simulated. In this study, the same FE head modelfrom Paper D was used, however here it was protected with amodel of a composite ballistic helmet. It was concluded thatthe helmet shell should be stiff enough to prevent the insideof the shell from striking the skull, and that the strainsarising in the brain tissue were higher for some obliqueimpacts than for purely radial ones.
In conclusion, this thesis describes the injury pattern ofmotorcycle and moped accidents in Sweden. This thesis showsthat the injuries sustained from these accidents can bereduced. In order to study both translational as well asrotational impacts, a new laboratory test rig was designed. Byusing the finite element method, it is possible to simulaterealistic impacts to the head and also to predict how severehead injuries may potentially be prevented.
Lo, Ka-yee. "Childhood injury prevention the attitudes, knowledge and practices of emergency nurses /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31972962.
Full textUdell, Julie. "Fall and injury prevention interventions : an exploration using three complementary methodologies." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/fall-and-injury-prevention-interventions(859d71c9-d4b4-42fe-a823-995da867b840).html.
Full textLo, Ka-yee, and 盧嘉儀. "Childhood injury prevention: the attitudes, knowledge and practices of emergency nurses." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31972962.
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Full textRigobon, Alexandra. "Polyurethane inserts for comfort and injury prevention while dancing en pointe." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104151.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-42).
Pointe shoes have been made using the same rudimentary materials and methods for the past 200 years, and for this reason modern dancers lack access to more sophisticated equipment. Presented here is an insert that will last longer than a typical shoe, improve fit around the toes, and increase comfort. The insert was made from Simpact© 60A, a commercially available two-part polyurethane. Samples were tested cyclically at rates of 2, 4, and 6 mm/s in order to ensure that they would not wear out and become unusable. Inserts were also molded to the foot of a semi-professional dancer and tested to measure the force on the hallux. Using a polyurethane insert, this force was reduced to less than 10% of a ballerina's body weight. This is a dramatic improvement from an unmodified shoe, where over 60% of the dancer's weight can be on the hallux, and even a shoe with an epoxy modification, where the pressures are around 20% of the body weight. These inserts also lie completely inside the toe box of the pointe shoe, meaning they have no effect on the aesthetics of ballet. They increase comfort through improved fit and decreased force, allow ballerinas to maintain feel of the floor, and are predicted to extend the life of the pointe shoe.
by Alexandra Rigobon.
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