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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Unterharnscheidt, Friedrich
• Taylor-Unterharnscheidt, Julia,

Titel

Boxing : medical aspects [electronic resource]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 758-788) and index.
• Front Cover; BOXING MEDICAL ASPECTS; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Impact Mechanics and Neuropathology of Closed Head Injury; Classification of Head and Brain Injuries; Injury Producing Mechanisms; Clinical Diagnoses; Types of Injuries of the Brain and Its Enveloping Structures; Chapter 2. General Aspects of the Biomechanics of Boxing; Measurement of Head Acceleration in Boxers; Relationship between Weight of Boxing Gloves and Severity of Impact; Influence of Head Guards and Canvas; Pneumatic Boxing Gloves; Thumbless or Thumb-restrained Boxing Gloves
• Discussion of Some Ideas and Terms used in BoxingChapter 3. The so-called Second Impact Syndrome; Chapter 4. Prize Ring Rules; Knocked Out of the Ring; Double Knock Outs; Fewest Knock Outs; Chapter 5. Punches; Blows against the Side of the Rib; So-called Cork-screw Punch; Effect of a Blow under the Heart; Solar Plexus Blows; Punches into the Stomach Region; Chapter 6. Illegal Punches; Blows with an Open Boxing Glove ('Lacing Punch'); 'Lacing Punch' to Rip Open the Brow and produce a Quick T K O; 'Lace Slasher' to Injure the Nose; 'Lace Punch' to the Mouth; Eye Thumbing and Gouging
• Blows with the ElbowHead Butting; The 'Nodder'; Blows below the Waistline; The so-called 'Rabbit Punch'; Chapter 7. Importance of Animal Models for the Interpretation of Boxing Injuries; Models with Translational Acceleration; Non-deforming Rotational Acceleration of the Head using Head Acceleration Device II (HAD-Il); Chapter 8. Injuries Apart from CNS Damage; Facial Injuries; Chapter 9. Eye Injuries; Case Histories of Eye Injuries in Boxers; Classification of Eye Injuries by DOGGART; Chapter 10. Hearing Impairments; Case Histories of Hearing Loss in Boxers; Series of PAULSEN and HUNDHAUSEN
• Audiometric Findings in the Different Weight ClassesThreshold Audiometric Findings in Boxers Related to the Total Number of Bouts; Extent of the Hearing Loss in the Different Weight Classes; Extent of the Hearing Loss in Regard to the Number of Bouts; Classification of Hearing Acuity after Head Injury; Relationship between Localization of Impact and Hearing Loss; Above - Threshold Audiometry: The Localization of Hearing due to the Result of above threshold Audiometry; Hearing Impairment as an Occupational Hazard in Professional Boxers
• Chapter 11. Injuries to the Hand, Wrist, Muscles and Peripheral NervesRib Fractures in Boxers; Traumatic Pneumothorax; Muscle Ruptures in Boxers; Chapter 12. Injuries to Internal Organs; Cardiac Injuries; Acute Renal Damage; Chapter 13. Damage to the Central Nervous System; Consciousness; Different Knock out Mechanisms; Commotio cerebri (cerebral concussion); Boxers Hanging draped over the Ring Ropes; 'Pummeling Knock out' ('Verhämmerungs Knock out'); Loss of Posture and Amnesia due to Anemia of the Brain; Oculo-cardiac Reflex Mechanisms (ASCHNER-DAGNINI Reflex)
• Knock down with Loss of Muscle Tone
• This book neither argues for or against the continuation of boxing, but lays out the literature and the body of scientific knowledge that are necessary to provide a meaningful background for the ensuing debate. It provides a comprehensive resource for those who are involved in regulating boxing and those who participate directly, as well as for the medical and scientific communities. Includes carefully quoted case histories and research as well as an extensive body of medical literature on boxing injuries to demonstrate that brain damage is a natural consequence of boxing.* Presents i
• English