Breaking Bones

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191144588X

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Breaking Bones by Robert White Pdf

Author : Vicki L. Wedel,Alison Galloway
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780398087692

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BROKEN BONES by Vicki L. Wedel,Alison Galloway Pdf

The editors, along with 15 outstanding contributors, comprehensively explore and provide an overview of the principles behind the interpretation of skeletal blunt force trauma. This expanded second edition provides a discussion on how to train for a career in forensic anthropology and offers guidance on how to complete a thorough trauma analysis. It also provides the labels given to different kinds of fractures and the biomechanical forces required to cause bone to fail and fracture. The text provides a theoretical framework for both evaluating published trauma studies and designing new ones. Experimental trauma research is an area ripe for research, and criteria to consider in choosing which non-human species to use in an actualistic study are offered. Common circumstances in which blunt force trauma is encountered are described. Information is provided on a variety of causes of death due to blunt force trauma. These causes range from accidental deaths to homicides due to blunt force from motor vehicle accidents, falls, strangulation, child and elder abuse, among others. Epidemiological information on whom is most likely affected by these various kinds of blunt force trauma is drawn from both the clinical and forensic literature. The most fundamental elements of the text are offered in four chapters where, bone by bone, fracture by fracture, the authors describe what to call each kind of fracture, what is known about how much force is required to break the bone that way, and fracture specific epidemiological information. This particular section of the text provides an invaluable reference source for forensic anthropologists and other osteologists to consult when looking at and trying to classify a bone fracture. Case studies are included to bring the book full circle back to considering the micro and macro bone changes that are seen when bone fails and fractures. The case studies are illustrative both of the concepts described through the book and of the high quality analyses forensic anthropologists contribute to medicolegal investigations of death every day. The text is further enhanced by 150 illustrations, some in color. This completely updated and expanded new volume is an essential reference for the forensic anthropology professional.

Author : Kathy Reichs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501105616

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Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs Pdf

Struggling with a lackluster teaching position at an archeology field school in South Carolina, Tempe Brennan discovers a fresh skeleton among ancient bones and traces leads to a free street clinic where patients are going missing.

Author : Angela Marsons
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786813022

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Broken Bones by Angela Marsons Pdf

Author : United States Public Health Service,Surgeon General of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1410219275

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Bone Health and Osteoporosis by United States Public Health Service,Surgeon General of the United States Pdf

This first-ever Surgeon General's Report on bone health and osteoporosis illustrates the large burden that bone disease places on our Nation and its citizens. Like other chronic diseases that disproportionately affect the elderly, the prevalence of bone disease and fractures is projected to increase markedly as the population ages. If these predictions come true, bone disease and fractures will have a tremendous negative impact on the future well-being of Americans. But as this report makes clear, they need not come true: by working together we can change the picture of aging in America. Osteoporosis, fractures, and other chronic diseases no longer should be thought of as an inevitable part of growing old. By focusing on prevention and lifestyle changes, including physical activity and nutrition, as well as early diagnosis and appropriate treatment, Americans can avoid much of the damaging impact of bone disease and other chronic diseases. This Surgeon General's Report brings together for the first time the scientific evidence related to the prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of bone disease. More importantly, it provides a framework for moving forward. The report will be another effective tool in educating Americans about how they can promote bone health throughout their lives. This first-ever Surgeon General's Report on bone health and osteoporosis provides much needed information on bone health, an often overlooked aspect of physical health. This report follows in the tradition of previous Surgeon Generals' reports by identifying the relevant scientific data, rigorously evaluating and summarizing the evidence, and determining conclusions.

Author : Gabrielle Balkan
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0714875120

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Book of Bones by Gabrielle Balkan Pdf

It's a book of world records... of bones! Guess whose bones are the longest, shortest, heaviest, spikiest, and more. With touchable skeletons! An International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice Title (2018) A Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Title (2019) Ten record-breaking animal bones are introduced through a series of superlatives set up as a guessing game with clues. Readers examine animals' skeletons and guess to whom they belong; the answers are revealed in vibrant, full-color scenic habitats, with easily understood — and humorous — explanations. This entertaining introduction to the connection between animal bones (anatomy) and behavior is playful, relatable, and includes touch-and-feel finishes that bring the bones to life!

Author : Caryn E. Tegtmeyer,Debra L. Martin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498547154

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Broken Bones, Broken Bodies by Caryn E. Tegtmeyer,Debra L. Martin Pdf

This volume explores the role that injury recidivism and accumulative trauma plays in prehistoric, historic, and modern contexts. Case studies provide examples of the ways in which skeletal remains can be used to understand and analyze repetitive trauma.

Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338113518

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Bones: Skeletons and How They Work by Steve Jenkins Pdf

Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins presents a fascinating look at the bones of the human body as compared to the bones of animals, and shows them off!This book is far from skinny -- it's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue. In this visually driven volume, kids come face-to-face with some head-to-toe boney comparisons, many of them shown at actual size. Here you'll find the differences between a man's hand and that of a spider monkey; the great weight of an elephant's leg, paired with the feather-light femur of a stork; and rib-tickling info about snakes and sloths. How many bones are in the whole human body?

Author : Brian K. Hall
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780124166851

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Bones and Cartilage by Brian K. Hall Pdf

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review and synthesis assembled on the topic, across all vertebrates. It examines the function, development and evolution of bone and cartilage as tissues, organs and skeletal systems. It describes how bone and cartilage develop in embryos and are maintained in adults, how bone is repaired when we break a leg, or regenerates when a newt grows a new limb, or a lizard a new tail. The second edition of Bones and Cartilage includes the most recent knowledge of molecular, cellular, developmental and evolutionary processes, which are integrated to outline a unified discipline of developmental and evolutionary skeletal biology. Additionally, coverage includes how the molecular and cellular aspects of bones and cartilage differ in different skeletal systems and across species, along with the latest studies and hypotheses of relationships between skeletal cells and the most recent information on coupling between osteocytes and osteoclasts All chapters have been revised and updated to include the latest research. Offers complete coverage of every aspect of bone and cartilage, with updated references and extensive illustrations Integrates development and evolution of the skeleton, as well a synthesis of differentiation, growth and patterning Treats all levels from molecular to clinical, embryos to evolution, and covers all vertebrates as well as invertebrate cartilages Includes new chapters on evolutionary skeletal biology that highlight normal variation and variability, and variation outside the norm (neomorphs, atavisms) Updates hypotheses on the origination of cartilage using new phylogenetic, cellular and genetic data Covers stem cells in embryos and adults, including mesenchymal stem cells and their use in genetic engineering of cartilage, and the concept of the stem cell niche

Author : Jodi Picoult
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982186395

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Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult Pdf

"Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they simply want a healthy baby. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe wanted the same but instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, pity from other parents, and haunting what-ifs. Yet, in other ways, their daughter Willow is a perfect child. Smart as a whip, beautiful, brave, and kind, Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and Sean to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more: what constitutes a valuable life?"--from amazon.com

Author : Ernesto Martinez
Publisher : Anti-Aging
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1646350162

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How to Heal Broken Bones Faster. Bone Fracture Healing Tips: Learn About Bone Fracture Healing Foods, Types of Bone Fractures, and the Five Stages of by Ernesto Martinez Pdf

In this fantastic new book, Dr. Ernesto Martinez, offers us a step-by-step guide on the most effective and expeditious ways to heal a broken bone. Using an effective combination of traditional and non-traditional approaches to getting you back on your feet. Many of us have long been told that a bone fracture, translates to a long period of decreased productivity, lost income, and a general erosion of our health. Now a growing body of research is giving us new strategies for dealing with a bone fracture. A unique book about bone healing that draws on the latest science as well as on the secrets of naturopathic medicine, from the renowned Dr. Ernesto Martinez. How to Heal Broken Bones Faster. Bone Fracture Healing Tips. Learn About Bone Fracture Healing Foods, Types of Bone Fractures, and the Five Stages of Bone Healing will give you a myriad of things we can do to keep our bodies and minds in good working order through the process of bone healing and achieve optimum wellness along the way. "Dr. Ernesto Martinez offers strategies to speed your bone healing immediately! A treasure chest of advice and information that any patient can follow and implement. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in getting their life back fast after an injury." Anita Mascarinia Occupational Therapist.

Author : Micah Dean Hicks
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781328566454

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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean Hicks Pdf

Almost everyone in Swine Hill is haunted, but when pig people appear in town, taking precious jobs at the pork processing plant and enraging the spirits, Jane will have to find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills her.

Author : Felix S. Chew,Catherine Maldijan,Hyojeong Mulcahy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107499232

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Broken Bones by Felix S. Chew,Catherine Maldijan,Hyojeong Mulcahy Pdf

This atlas presents X-ray images of nearly every bone in the body broken, accompanied by written descriptions and clinical context.

Author : F. Charles Brunicardi,Dana K. Andersen,Timothy R. Billiar,David L. Dunn,John G. Hunter,Jeffrey B. Matthews,Raphael E. Pollock
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 1888 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780071800921

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Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 10th edition by F. Charles Brunicardi,Dana K. Andersen,Timothy R. Billiar,David L. Dunn,John G. Hunter,Jeffrey B. Matthews,Raphael E. Pollock Pdf

THE WORLD'S #1 SURGERY TEXT--UPDATED TO INCLUDE STATE-OF-THE-ART EVIDENCE-BASED SURGICAL CARE AND LEADERSHIP GUIDANCE FOR TRAINEES AND PRACTICING SURGEONS The Tenth Edition of Schwartz's Principles of Surgery maintains the book's unmatched coverage of the foundations of surgery while bringing into sharper focus new and emerging technologies. We have entered a new era of surgery in which minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery, and the use of computers and genomic information have improved the outcomes and quality of life for patients. With these advances in mind, all chapters have been updated with an emphasis on evidence-based, state-of-the-art surgical care. An exciting new chapter, "Fundamental Principles of Leadership Training in Surgery," expands the scope of the book beyond the operating room to encompass the actual development of surgeons. This edition is also enriched by an increased number of international chapter authors and a new chapter on Global Surgery. More than ever, Schwartz's Principles of Surgery is international in scope--a compendium of the knowledge and technique of the world's leading surgeons. Features More clinically relevant than ever, with emphasis on high-yield discussion of diagnosis and treatment of surgical disease, arranged by organ system and surgical specialty Content is supported by boxed key points, detailed anatomical figures, diagnostic and management algorithms, and key references Beautiful full-color design

Author : A. J. Mendez
Publisher : Crown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451496676

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Crazy Is My Superpower by A. J. Mendez Pdf

The New York Times Bestseller Recently retired WWE superstar AJ Mendez Brooks is a powerhouse—strong, quirky, and totally confident. But that wasn’t always the case. With humor and tremendous heart, she opens up for the first time about her harrowing struggle to understand her demons and the diagnosis that helped her gain control over her life. Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled—SHORT, NERDY, SKINNY, WEAK, IMPULSIVE, UGLY, TOMBOY, POOR, REBEL, LOUD, FREAK, CRAZY—turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them. Growing up AJ was a quiet girl trying to act “normal” when she felt anything but. As her family struggled with drug addiction, poverty, and mental illness, she found escape through comic books and video games, and was inspired by the tough and unconventional female characters. It wasn’t until she discovered pro wrestling that she learned superheroes could be real. Determined to become the superhero she’d always admired, AJ trained and sacrificed for years to achieve her dream of wrestling professionally. Yet she quickly faced industry pressure to play the role of the damsel in distress and to dress more provocatively to cater to male fans. But she fought back and created an ass-kicking alter ego that was a genuine representation of herself: nerdy, enthusiastic, and a little bit crazy. With humor and tremendous heart, AJ opens up for the first time about her harrowing struggle to understand her demons and the mental illness diagnosis that helped her gain control over her life. What most people view as a hardship, AJ embraced as inspira­tion for her superhero persona, shattering the stigma attached to mental illness. Charting her journey from a scrappy girl in an unstable home to an empowered wrestling champion, Crazy Is My Superpower is an un­flinchingly honest story and brave confessional about her long road to self-acceptance.