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1) Memory man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice. The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything. The second time was at home nearly two decades later....
Author
Language
English
Description
Sarah Nickerson is a 37-year-old, overachieving multitasker with a Harvard MBA and a demanding job. Her husband, Bob, works and shares in the upbringing of their three young children in an affluent suburb. Then theres a car accident, and a traumatic brain injury leaves Sarah with 2left neglect,3 a lack of awareness of anything to her left, including the left side of her own body. The one person who can help is Sarahs mother, Helen, yet their relationship...
Series
Nursing clinics of North America volume 34, no. 4
Publisher
Saunders
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xiv, p. 777-982 : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 623 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Provides basic consumer health information about sports injuries in various parts of the body, protective equipment and preventive measures, treatment options, and a special section on sports injuries in children and teens. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
10) Get well, Eva
Author
Series
Owl diaries volume 16
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Eva hurts her wing, she visits the hospital and meets a new friend, Rocco, who has a broken leg--but wearing a sling for a week prevents her from writing in her diary, and she turns to her friends and family in order to keep it up to date.
Author
Publisher
Zahor̕ Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edici̤n: marzo de 2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
"¡Au, ay, uy! ¡Me he hecho daño! Los pequęos accidentes pueden ocurrir cuando menos nos lo esperamos: en el patio del colegio, cuando vamos de excursi̤n, en casa o durante las vacaciones. La buena noticia es que la piel nos protege como un buen embalaje, las plaquetas tapan r̀pidamente las heridas y los gl̤bulos blancos y rojos corren a protegernos y a luchar contra posibles infecciones. ¡Nuestro cuerpo acúta y las heridas se curar̀n en...
13) Concussion
Author
Language
English
Description
The unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts him in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL.
In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yahoos lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports the pitching arm and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the games lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny...
15) The broken cat
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. ( unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy asks his mother to tell the story about breaking her arm while they wait for the veterinarian to determine what is wrong with their cat.
16) Illness & injury
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses ways to prevent or treat illnesses.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she picks up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now she's ready for high school, for new friends, for love-- for everything life has to offer. Jack Masselin's got swagger, he's mastered the impossible...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves. They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the tremendous passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing-not even the loss of her arm in a horrific shark attack-could come between her and the waves? That...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not.
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