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  2. Soft tissue injury - Wikipedia

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    A soft tissue injury is the damage of muscles, ligaments and tendons throughout the body. Common soft tissue injuries usually occur from a sprain, strain, a one-off blow resulting in a contusion or overuse of a particular part of the body. Soft tissue injuries can result in pain, swelling, bruising and loss of function. [1]

  3. Mechanism of action of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    It does so by acetylating the hydroxyl of a serine residue at the 530 amino acid position. [6] Normally COX produces prostaglandins, most of which are pro-inflammatory, and thromboxanes, which promote clotting. Aspirin-modified COX-2 produces 15-epi-lipoxins, which act to resolve inflammatory responses similar to other lipoxins. [7]

  4. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    In physics and engineering, a free body diagram (FBD; also called a force diagram) [1] is a graphical illustration used to visualize the applied forces, moments, and resulting reactions on a free body in a given condition. It depicts a body or connected bodies with all the applied forces and moments, and reactions, which act on the body(ies).

  5. Somatosensory system - Wikipedia

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    It has two subdivisions, one for the detection of mechanosensory information related to touch, and the other for the nociception detection of pain and temperature. [1] The main functions of the somatosensory system are the perception of external stimuli, the perception of internal stimuli, and the regulation of body position and balance ...

  6. Human iron metabolism - Wikipedia

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    Iron is both necessary to the body and potentially toxic. Controlling iron levels in the body is a critically important part of many aspects of human health and disease. Hematologists have been especially interested in systemic iron metabolism, because iron is essential for red blood cells, where most of the human body's iron is contained.

  7. Amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Physical therapy involves training the use of the affected limb or training the use of the body. This is for the purpose of retraining muscles after muscle atrophy, and retraining how to use the affected muscles with less amplified pain. Massage therapy is used to desensitize the affected area or body so it can build a tolerance to pain.

  8. Rapid trauma assessment - Wikipedia

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    The goal is to identify and treat immediate threats to life that may not have been obvious during an initial assessment. After an initial assessment involving basic checks on airway, breathing and circulation , the caregiver considers things like mechanism of injury (how the person was hurt) to determine if a more rapid diagnostic approach is ...

  9. Hemin - Wikipedia

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    Hemin is protoporphyrin IX containing a ferric iron (Fe 3+) ion with a coordinating chloride ligand. Chemically, hemin differs from the related heme-compound hematin chiefly in that the coordinating ion is a chloride ion in hemin, whereas the coordinating ion is a hydroxide ion in hematin. [ 2 ]