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  2. Charley horse - Wikipedia

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    Dead legs and charley horses are two different types of injuries: A charley horse involves the muscles contracting without warning, and can last from a few seconds to a couple days. A dead leg often occurs in contact sports, such as football, when an athlete suffers a knee or other blunt trauma to the lateral quadriceps causing a haematoma or ...

  3. Cadaveric spasm - Wikipedia

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    Cadaveric spasm, also known as postmortem spasm, instantaneous rigor mortis, cataleptic rigidity, or instantaneous rigidity, is a rare form of muscular stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into the period of rigor mortis. [1]

  4. Rigor mortis - Wikipedia

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    A dead body holds its position as rigor mortis sets in. If the body is moved after death, but before rigor mortis begins, forensic techniques such as livor mortis can be applied. Rigor mortis is known as transient evidence , as the degree to which it affects a body degrades over time.

  5. Rugby Player, 15, Died Less Than One Day After He Grazed Leg ...

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    Samuel Staple, 15, died on Sept. 24 after sustaining a graze to his leg during a rugby match the previous day. ... England, was found dead in his grandparents' home on September 24, 2024.

  6. Kayaker's leg amputated in middle of river after 20 ... - AOL

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    A tourist in Tasmania has had his leg amputated in the middle of a raging river after getting trapped between rocks during a kayaking trip with friends. Medics said they made the "life or death ...

  7. WWE wrestler Sid Vicious, who fractured leg during live ... - AOL

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    WWE wrestler Sid Vicious, who fractured leg during live match, dead at 63. Kevin E G Perry. August 26, 2024 at 8:30 PM ... After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation ...

  8. Seiza - Wikipedia

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    A woman in seiza performing a Japanese tea ceremony. Prior to the Edo period, there were no standard postures for sitting on the floor. [1] During this time, seiza referred to "correct sitting", which took various forms such as sitting cross-legged (胡坐, agura), sitting with one knee raised (立て膝, tatehiza), or sitting to the side (割座, wariza), while the posture commonly known as ...

  9. Massachusetts woman nearly loses leg after developing deadly ...

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    A Massachusetts woman nearly lost her leg after she developed a life-threatening condition following a high intensity-spin class.