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Athlete with a quadriceps strain. Place knee passively in 120º of flexion and immobilize with a double elastic wrap in a figure-8 fashion. This should occur within minutes of the injury. Used with permission courtesy of John Aronen, MD.
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Modified treatment of quadriceps contusion. Used with permission courtesy of John Aronen, MD.
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Rotator cuff injury.
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In this patient's shoulder radiography, the humeral head no longer matches up with the glenoid because the rotator cuff is torn and the strong deltoid muscle is pulling the head superiorly toward the acromion. Courtesy of Dr Thomas Murray, Orthopaedic Associates of Portland.
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Lateral view of the neck showing calcification in the paraspinal muscles. Image contributed by Ajay K. Singh, MD, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich.
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A 6-year-old girl who presents a few days after being disciplined on the buttocks with a wooden spoon by her mother. This pattern of bruises is of suspicious shape, number, and location.
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Picture of compartment pressure measuring device for use when commercial devices are unavailable.
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Stryker STIC Monitor. Image courtesy of Stryker Corporation, used with permission.
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An illustration that depicts measurement of compartment pressures in the forearm.
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Anteroposterior radiograph of the right hip in a 16-year-old boy who had suffered trauma to the hip 2 years previously (same patient in Images 10-11). The patient is currently experiencing hip pain. Mature heterotopic ossification (arrowheads) projects over and lateral to the femoral head.
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Corresponding lateral view of the right hip (same patient in Images 10-11). Distal to the mature heterotopic ossification (HO) seen on the anteroposterior view (arrowheads) is a subtle area of early mineralization (arrows) consistent with early HO.
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