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Even a tough guy like "Thor," an ex-Army Ranger from Dallas, is haunted by his experience. He suffered two broken shoulders, a torn rotator cuff and loss of vision in one eye while getting shot at, bombed and almost stabbed by an Iraqi who tried to drag him out of his cab. "I beat the guy to death with a hammer," he says, asking to remain anonymous. "Sometimes they threw themselves in front of the truck. I can't count how many people I've run over--20, 30 maybe. It got so bad the truck would bounce...
...It’s very valuable for students to be able to, off-the-cuff, say what they think would be the ideal situation over in Allston,” Mahan said. “It’s very important to get a good sense of what people do and don’t like about their current experience here...
Mann, on the other hand, thanks modern medicine and healthy practicing for the longevity of his career. He says he may be the only professional violinist still performing after undergoing two rotator-cuff surgeries. The great Jascha Heifetz ended his concert career when tendon weakness in his right arm prevented him from bowing properly. These days, medical specialists have myriad techniques for keeping performers in playing shape even as their bodies age and muscles weaken. Musicians with dystonia, for example, who often suffer from muscle spasms, now receive experimental new movement and drug therapies...
Patients lie down during the procedure, which lasts an hour and is performed once a day, five times a week, for seven weeks. (The cost is about $6,000, compared with as much as $60,000 for bypass surgery.) The pneumatic cuffs are timed to inflate in progression--starting with the section around the calves--when the heart reaches its resting phase between beats. As each cuff inflates, it squeezes blood out of the legs and back to the heart. "It feels like a deep muscle massage," says Dr. Debra Braverman, who administers EECP to patients in Philadelphia. The most...
...Another Cuff three with 4:21 remaining gave Columbia a 14-point lead—its biggest of the contest?...