Word: tendon
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...junior had been sidelined by tendonitis of his hip flexor and adductor tendon stemming from a groin injury he suffered as a senior in high school that has plagued him since...
...Keydets (5-5) won despite having lost the previous night to lowly Norfolk State and despite playing without their leading scorer in the second half. Guard Jason Conley (22.2 ppg) strained a tendon in his right foot during the first half and did not play after halftime...
...postoperative infection, a patient's recovery time can be much faster than if a graft is taken from his or her own body. A surgeon can more easily, and less invasively, replace knee ligaments with cadaver tissue than with a portion of a patient's own hamstring or tendon. Of course, the risk of infection can never be eliminated in any operation. But it can be managed. Ultimately, patients must weigh the risks of an implant against the benefits. It's like driving a car, says Dr. Rick Hammesfahr, an orthopedic surgeon in Atlanta. "The probability of an accident...
...antibiotics have side effects, but fluoroquinolones--the family that includes Cipro--have had more than their share of strange ones. Earlier generations of the drugs caused personality changes, cardiovascular complications and ruptured tendons, particularly the Achilles tendon, in a small number of users. Three earlier fluoroquinolones had to be taken off the market. One, Omniflox, was withdrawn after only three months, following dozens of severe reactions, including several deaths...
...They had a guy working on sedating him. I cut his trousers off. He still had his sock as his tourniquet. He went right into surgery. They did the surgery, they didn't have to do the skin graft, they reconstructed the joint around his toe, they reattached the tendon. When we were at the hospital, the head of the infectious disease department was staying overnight for the first three days and sat down with me and said, 'Two weeks ago I had five kids who petted a Komodo dragon and got severe salmonella poisoning and I was dealing with...