Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bleeding. Then the police ambulance sirened up and rushed the boy to the emergency room of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. There, when his long-sleeved shirt was removed, the full extent of Ev Knowles's injury became clear: his right arm was completely severed from the shoulder...
...hustled to the operating theater, his arm was put in a tub of chipped ice. The doctors dared lose no time in this effort to cut down the tissues' need for oxygen and thus delay the onset of rigor mortis in the muscles. Ev Knowles's shoulder joint was intact. The break in the humerus (the only bone in the upper arm) was between two and three inches below the joint. Says M.G.H. Spokesman Dr. Robert Shaw: "It was as though the arm had been laid on a bar and whacked with a sledge into multiple fragments." About...
...radiopaque dye. X rays promptly showed that the arterial tree was open all the way to the fingertips. Relieved, Dr. Herrmann picked up the arm, carried it carefully to the operating table on which Ev Knowles had just been wheeled in, all draped except for his torn and bloody shoulder...
...diagnosis: "Little League elbow" and "Little League shoulder." Both troubles result from the fact that bone and cartilage in youngsters have not hardened to the point where they can sustain the stress of continued hard pitching. In Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling...
Last month, in the 156-mile Paris-to-Brussels race. Van Looy was sprinting from deep in the pack when he smashed head-on into a tangle of fallen cyclists near the France-Belgium border. Slithering over the cobblestones, he fell heavily on his own bike frame, gashed his shoulder badly, and was carted off to the hospital...