Accidental Injection of White Spirit into the Hand in Golfers

1993 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 654-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. RIMMER ◽  
J. B. KING ◽  
A. FRANKLIN
Keyword(s):  
Index Finger ◽  
The Other ◽  
White Spirit ◽  
Golf Club ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Severe Damage

We report two cases in which white spirit has been injected accidentally into the hand by golfers, while attempting to remove the grip of the golf-club handle in order to replace it. One of our patients has anecdotal evidence of this happening in at least two other cases, one of which resulted in amputation of the index finger, and the other in severe damage to the thumb.

scholarly journals Hypermobility and sports injury

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. e000366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Alexander Nathan ◽  
Kevin Davies ◽  
Ian Swaine
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Sports Injury ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Joint Dislocation ◽  
Ligament Sprain

ObjectiveTo determine whether there is an association between hypermobility and sports injury.MethodsA quantitative observational approach using a cross-sectional survey was adopted. Individuals were identified as hypermobile or not. All participants were asked to complete two questionnaires: one asking demographic information and the other injury-specific. Fisher’s exact test was used for statistical analysis.Results114 individuals participated in the study, 62 women and 52 men. 26% of the participants were hypermobile. There was no significant association between hypermobility and sports injury (p=0.66). There was a significant increase in joint and ligament sprain among the non-hypermobile (NH) group covering all sports (p=0.03). Joint dislocation was found exclusively among hypermobile individuals. The duration of injury in hypermobile individuals was higher than NH. The use of oral painkillers or anti-inflammatories in the semiprofessional group was greater than the general population.ConclusionHypermobility is relatively common among individuals, and there is a lot of anecdotal evidence associating it with increased rates of injuries. This project finds that NH individuals are more likely to sustain a ligament or joint sprain in sports. This is due to increased joint laxity and flexibility preventing injury. There were important limitations to this study which will be addressed in further work. These include assessing for pauciarticular hypermobility and focusing on one sport to investigate its association with sports injury in those who are hypermobile or not. It would also be important to focus on one specific joint, assessing its flexibility and association with injury.

Pointing, Rainbows, and the Archaeology of Mind

Anthropos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Robert Blust
Keyword(s):  
Index Finger ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Other World

For over a century anthropologists and folklorists have sporadically recorded a belief that one should not point at a rainbow, lest the offending finger become permanently bent, rot, be supernaturally severed, fall off, etc. In each case the belief was reported for a particular geographical region without apparent awareness of its presence elsewhere, and in no case was an explanation for this curious idea proposed. This paper documents what is called the “Rainbow Taboo” as a global phenomenon, found among peoples of quite varied cultural backgrounds, and it argues that the universality of the belief is a product of the interaction of two independent cognitive elements: an apparently innate sense that the rainbow is associated with the “other world,” and, secondly, a similar sense that pointing with the index finger is aggressive, and should not be used either in normal human interactions or more particularly against the supernatural.

Reparations for Children and Youth

2016 ◽  
pp. 307-328
Author(s):  
Sinthya Rubio Escolar
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Project

Violence against children and youth in war causes severe damage to individuals, communities and societies. This chapter aims to demonstrate the importance of reparations for children and youth as a peacebuilding mechanism in the context of transitional justice. On one hand, the chapter seeks to address reparations for children and youth understood as a political project, with a transformative and participatory potential for rebuilding societies and healing the wounds of those who have been affected by armed conflict. On the other hand, the paper attempts to overcome the conception of children and youth as passive victims, providing them with agency to become engaged political members in building peaceful societies. Thus, reparations should position them as subjects of rights, giving them voice as contributors in peacebuilding processes.

Elephant damage to trees of wooded savanna in Zakouma National Park, Chad

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Calenge ◽  
Daniel Maillard ◽  
Jean-Michel Gaillard ◽  
Leon Merlot ◽  
Regis Peltier
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
National Park ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Tree Density ◽  
The Other ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Damage Rate ◽  
Auto Correlation ◽  
Water Point ◽  
Acacia Seyal

Damage caused by elephants was monitored in two woodland stands of Zakouma National Park (Chad) between February and March 1998. The Acacia seyal savanna was more severely damaged (29.8% of trees damaged of which 13.2% severely) than the Combretaceae savanna (26.5% of trees damaged of which only 4.2% severely). Nearly all severely damaged trees showed resprouts (respectively 86.8% and 88.5% in Combretaceae and A. seyal savannas). Both low damage rate and low mortality rate indicate that no serious ‘elephant problem’ occurred in Zakouma National Park. Elephants selected trees to damage according to species and height. Such selection also occurred for severe damage in A. seyal savanna, but only height affected severity of damage in Combretaceae savanna. In both savannas, the plots close to a water point were the most frequently damaged. In Combretaceae savanna, the distribution of damaged trees was clumped. On the other hand, spatial auto-correlation was not significant for the severity or the frequency of damage in A. seyal savanna. Neither tree density nor diversity of woody species affected the spatial patterns of damage or severe damage.

Shaken Confidence: The Effects of an Authority Figure's Flirtatiousness on Women's and Men's Self-Rated Creativity

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur T. Satterfield ◽  
Charlene L. Muehlenhard
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Authority Figure ◽  
Male Confederate

Anecdotal evidence suggests that sexual harassment may cause women to doubt their abilities, attributing their success to their professor's or supervisor's attraction to them rather than to their qualifications. Two experiments assessed whether a decrease in confidence could result from something as seemingly harmless as flirting. In Experiment 1, a male confederate posing as an advertising executive asked 56 female students to draw an advertisement, which he then praised. He behaved either flirtatiously or neutrally. In Experiment 2, female and male students interacted with a flirtatious or neutral advertisement executive of the other gender. In both experiments, women's self-creativity ratings decreased significantly more from pre-to posttest in the flirtatious condition than in the control condition. Men were affected less than women by the ad executive's flirtatiousness. The results suggest that flirtatiousness by an authority figure may have negative consequences for women's self-confidence.

Dimensions of the Metacarpo-Phalangeal Joint with Particular Reference to Joint Prostheses

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Unsworth ◽  
W J Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Index Finger ◽  
Middle Finger ◽  
Transverse Plane ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prosthesis Design ◽  
Single Centre ◽  
Articular Surfaces ◽  
Joint Prostheses ◽  
Centre Of Rotation ◽  
Little Finger

Sixty metacarpo-phalangeal joints were dissected and investigated to determine the shape, size and position of the articular surfaces with respect to the medullary canals of the metacarpal and the phalanx. The results show that the articular surfaces of the metacarpo-phalangeal joint have a single centre of rotation in the sagital plane and in the transverse plane. The joints of the little and ring fingers have radii of curvature in the sagital and transverse planes, which are almost equal (within 1.6 per cent) while those radii of the middle finger varied by 9 per cent. The index finger had a variation in radius from the sagital to the transverse plane of almost 13 per cent; the sagital plane radius being the greatest. This observation is the opposite of the other joints where the transverse radius is the greater one. The overall widths of the metacarpal heads were seen to vary from 13 mm in the little finger of females to 17 mm in the index finger of males (average). The medullary canals had axes which were not coincident with the centre of rotation of the joint but up to 3 mm displaced from it. These dimensional differences have important implications in prosthesis design.

Reparations for Children and Youth

2016 ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Sinthya Rubio Escolar
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The Other ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Violence Against Children ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Project

Violence against children and youth in war causes severe damage to individuals, communities and societies. This chapter aims to demonstrate the importance of reparations for children and youth as a peacebuilding mechanism in the context of transitional justice. On one hand, the chapter seeks to address reparations for children and youth understood as a political project, with a transformative and participatory potential for rebuilding societies and healing the wounds of those who have been affected by armed conflict. On the other hand, the paper attempts to overcome the conception of children and youth as passive victims, providing them with agency to become engaged political members in building peaceful societies. Thus, reparations should position them as subjects of rights, giving them voice as contributors in peacebuilding processes.

Silence, Scalpels, and Loupes: Reconsidering O’Connor as Sylvia Plath’s Contemporary

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Lindsey Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Difference ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Personal Essay ◽  
Female Authors

In an approach that is closer to a work of creative writing than to conventional criticism, Poet Lindsey Alexander compares O’Connor’s and Plath’s reception as women writers. This essay is something of an anomaly in the collection since it relies on elements of the personal essay, asks more questions than it answers, and uses anecdotal evidence. However, we see it as an essential demonstration of the volume’s commitment to a broad reconsideration of O’Connor, which includes exploring how she affects current writers and their work and practices. Alexander examines O’Connor and Plath as a way to consider how female authors are received by a male readership and identifies several similarities between the two authors—who are rarely regarded in tandem—and one striking difference: the perceived masculinity of O’Connor’s violent subject matter and the assumed femininity of Plath’s subject matter. Alexander uses these two gendered designations to raise the question: why one and not the other? 

scholarly journals Ultrastructure of cranial nerves of rats inoculated with rabies virus

1997 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 680-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilberto Minguetti ◽  
Robin M. Hofmeister ◽  
Yasuyoshi Hayashi ◽  
Juan A. Montaño
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Rabies Virus ◽  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Axonal Degeneration ◽  
Cranial Nerves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Severe Damage ◽  
Ultrastructural Alterations

The V and VII cranial nerves of rats inoculated with rabies virus were studied by electron microscopy. The results were compared with the same cranial nerves of rats inoculated with rabies virus but vaccinated against the disease. The findings are those of axonal degeneration and intense demyelination of the nerves of the group of rats not vaccinated. The vaccinated rats showed some ultrastructural irrelevant alterations when compared with the other group. The degree of ultrastructural alterations found in the group of rats not vaccinated suggests that in rabies severe damage of the cranial nerves occurs and that this may be closely related to the clinical picture of the disease (hydrophobia). Furthermore, as far as the authors know, this has not been considered in the classic descriptions of rabies and it is possible that an immunologic process may take part in the demyelination observed in the present study.

scholarly journals Coordination of pincer grasp and transport after mechanical perturbation of the index finger

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 2292-2297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F. Schettino ◽  
Sergei V. Adamovich ◽  
Eugene Tunik
Keyword(s):  
Neural Control ◽  
Index Finger ◽  
Lateral Displacement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Reach To Grasp ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Transport Component ◽  
Extension Force ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Our understanding of reach-to-grasp movements has evolved from the original formulation of the movement as two semi-independent visuomotor channels to one of interdependence. Despite a number of important contributions involving perturbations of the reach or the grasp, some of the features of the movement, such as the presence or absence of coordination between the digits during the pincer grasp and the extent of spatio-temporal interdependence between the transport and the grasp, are still unclear. In this study, we physically perturbed the index finger into extension during grasping closure on a minority of trials to test whether modifying the movement of one digit would affect the movement of the opposite digit, suggestive of an overarching coordinative process. Furthermore, we tested whether disruption of the grasp results in the modification of kinematic parameters of the transport. Our results showed that a continuous perturbation to the index finger affected wrist velocity but not lateral displacement. Moreover, we found that the typical flexion of the thumb observed in nonperturbed trials was delayed until the index finger counteracted the extension force. These results suggest that physically perturbing the grasp modifies the kinematics of the transport component, indicating a two-way interdependence of the reach and the grasp. Furthermore, a perturbation to one digit affects the kinematics of the other, supporting a model of grasping in which the digits are coordinated by a higher-level process rather than being independently controlled. NEW & NOTEWORTHY A current debate concerning the neural control of prehension centers on the question of whether the digits in a pincer grasp are controlled individually or together. Employing a novel approach that perturbs mechanically the grasp component during a natural reach-to-grasp movement, this work is the first to test a key hypothesis: whether perturbing one of the digits during the movement affects the other. Our results support the idea that the digits are not independently controlled.

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