Use of Clinical Movement Screening Tests to Evaluate Return to Sport Readiness of Young Athlete with Multi-Ligament Knee Injury: A Case Report

Background: Hundreds of thousands of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur every year, thousands of which are combination injuries with damage to multiple ligaments. Despite advances in surgical and rehabilitative interventions the rate of reinjury in this patient population remains high. While there is a growing amount of return to sport guidelines being published in the literature, there lacks a consensus on which is best. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the use of clinical movement screening tests to assess the return to sport readiness of a patient with a multi-ligament knee injury. Case Description: The patient was a 17-year-old male soccer player who sustained ACL, medial collateral ligament (MCL) and meniscus tears due to a contact injury while playing football. The patient underwent surgery for ACL reconstruction, MCL reconstruction and meniscal repair. The patient worked with therapy for over 12 months with an extended return to sport phase focused on functional strengthening, plyometrics, agility and neuromuscular training. Outcome Assessments: The move2perform tool was utilized, which combines the results of the Functional Movement Screen, the Lower Quarter Y Balance Test and Functional Hop Testing to assess risk of future injury. A checklist developed by the clinic to test neuromuscular control was also used. Discussion: This case report describes the effectiveness of using a combination of multiple movement screening tests to assist with guiding interventions and return to sport decision making. Research studies evaluating the validity of these movement screens to assess the risk of future injury show mixed results. Future research studies should investigate the validity of movement screens to specifically assess risk of reinjury in patients with multi-ligament knee injuries

In Janet Dempster\u27s Footsteps: Reminiscence

The road from Trent Valley Station down towards the town centre curves gently past the row of horse-chestnuts in Bond Gate with their white candles. To the young boy arriving to take up residence in Nuneaton it promised something new, always interesting, always just out of reach. From my earliest years I was a keen reader and felt the privilege of our local author\u27s being one of the unquestioned greats; but it was George Eliot\u27s north Warwickshire that initially attracted me, with The Mill on the Floss and Si/as Marner my favourites. This was reinforced by cycling the lanes for miles around, admiring the cottages and farmhouses, absorbing the atmosphere of the churches and, though much less consciously than she expressed it in a letter, \u27being made happier by seeing well-cultivated land\u27. I already felt that her sane treatment of central issues of being human was rooted in the beautiful ordinariness of these landscapes. But in later years, while retaining the general admiration, I\u27ve become more subjective and idiosyncratic in my reading, and above all, strangely slowly, I\u27ve come to realize the unusual degree of integration of my early years with George Eliot\u27s Nuneaton in the narrower sense, the Treby Magna of Felix Holt, and above all the Milby of \u27Janet\u27s\u27Repentance\u27. My entire thirteen school years were spent next to Milby parish church, first at Vicarage Street Church of England Primary School, just across the road from where Mary Ann Evans herself went to school, and then at King Edward VI Grammar School, supposedly attended by the narrator of Scenes of Clerical Life. The window of our Arts Sixth Form room set high in the school\u27s end wall looks just as it did in the nineteen-fifties, and overlooks the grave of James William Buchanan, Gentleman; so .the original of the arrogant wife-beater to this day seeks redemption in a single word of social prestige

SCIENCE 4 (REAL) SUSTAINABILITY

A game was created by two Physics graduates - Sarah Jones Emma Tebbs - evolving out of the one originally created in 2007 on the S4S project, but this one uses the real issues of sustainability among the communities of Tugen people who live around Lake Bogoria, Kenya, as a result of a two-week design workshop with community members in August 2008. The game is based upon the ancient African game of Mancala (or Bao in East Africa), which is itself possibly the oldest game in the world, played in pits in the ground. The Sustainability Game is played on a board, with circles representing eight resources instead of pits (e.g. water, livestock, wildlife, wetlands) and seeds representing the amount of resources a player can exploit. The roll of a dice simulates the climate conditions each year under which the players must make decisions about how to allocate their resources and how many to use (eat, drink etc). A film was made about the game at the time of the Workshops

The politics of paranoia: paranoid positioning and conspiratorial narratives in the surveillance society

The notion of paranoia is often implicitly reproduced in the work of surveillance researchers. However, in this article I will argue that this notion needs to be interrogated since current conceptions of paranoia are inherently dualistic: viewing paranoia solely at an individual or intra-psychic level; or, alternatively solely at a societal level. Inevitably, either perspective is limited. Here I will attempt to break down this dichotomy by, firstly, drawing on the notion of discursive positioning to: analyse the cultural discourses which "produce" paranoia; examine how subjects (i.e. individuals, communities, societies etc.) become positioned by others as paranoid; and explore the effects of such positioning. Secondly, I will investigate the discursive positions through which people may position themselves as paranoid and describe some of the effects of such positioning. I conclude by drawing out some implications of a more nuanced view of paranoia for the field of surveillance studies

Emergency vehicle alert system, phase 2

The EVAS provides warning for hearing-impaired motor vehicle drivers that an emergency vehicle is in the local vicinity. Direction and distance to the emergency vehicle are presented visually to the driver. This is accomplished by a special RF transmission/reception system. During this phase the receiver and transmitter from Phase 1 were updated and modified and a directional antenna developed. The system was then field tested with good results. Static and dynamic (moving vehicle) tests were made with the direction determined correctly 98 percent of the time

Anchoring effects in the development of false childhood memories

When people receive descriptions or doctored photos of events that never happened, they often come to remember those events. But if people receive both a description and a doctored photo, does the order in which they receive the information matter? We asked people to consider a description and a doctored photograph of a childhood hot air balloon ride, and we varied which medium they saw first. People who saw a description first reported more false images and memories than people who saw a photo first, a result that fits with an anchoring account of false childhood memories