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Treatment for retired football players
Washington University Orthopedics participating in NFL spine treatment program
June 30,
2009 --
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The National Football League has announced a new spine treatment program for retired players, and orthopedics specialists at the School of Medicine have been chosen to participate. K. Daniel Riew, the Mildred B. Simon Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chief of the cervical spine service for Washington University Orthopedics, is one of five U.S. spine specialists selected to participate in the new NFL program.
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Artificial alternative to spinal fusion
Artificial disc replacement as good or better than spinal fusion surgery
Feb. 26,
2009 -- Spine surgeons at theSchool of Medicine and other U.S. centers are reporting that artificial disc replacement works as well and often better than spinal fusion surgery. The two procedures are performed on patients with damaged discs in the neck.
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Understanding concussions
Mild traumatic brain injuries are focus of research project
Feb. 26,
2009 -- The Centers for Disease control reports approximately 280,000 Americans are hospitalized each year because of traumatic brain injuries. Explaining the complications associated with these injuries has been a difficult task for doctors. A new research project — the Attention Dynamics Consortium in Traumatic Brain Injury — seeks to better understand the effects of traumatic brain injuries.
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National network of stroke centers reaches WUSM
WUSTL receives $9 million to create stroke research center
July 8,
2008 -- The School of Medicine will receive approximately $9 million over 5 years to investigate new ways to diagnose and treat stroke. The new research center will become part of a national network of stroke centers.
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Mental processes
Researchers find that neurons compensate for electrical changes
June 11,
2008 -- All mental processes, including thinking, learning and memory, depend on the electrical properties of individual nerve cells in the brain and on the connections between them. In turn, the electrical responses of each nerve cell, or neuron, reflect the unique set of pores — called ion channels — that perforate its surface and allow the passage of charged particles, or ions. So researchers at the School of Medicine were a little surprised when they saw no harmful effects in mice after eliminating an important type of potassium ion channel from neurons in the brain.
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Assessing head injuries
WUSM doctors use neurocognitive test to quickly identify concussions
Nov. 29,
2007 -- In most hospital emergency rooms, patients with head injuries typically receive computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the damage. But brain injuries that lead to concussions rarely show up as abnormalities on such scans. So Washington University physicians at Barnes Hospital's Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center have decided to go one step further. They are the only doctors in the St. Louis area who give a simple neurocognitive test to head injury patients to quickly identify concussions.
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A valuable explanation
West Nile virus' spread through nerve cells linked to serious complication
Oct. 17,
2007 -- Scientists believe they have found an explanation for a puzzling and serious complication of West Nile virus infection. Researchers showed that the virus can enter a nerve cell, replicate and move on to infect other nearby nerve cells. Viruses traveling this infectious pathway can break into the central nervous system, triggering a condition known as acute flaccid paralysis that leaves one or more limbs limp and unresponsive.
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'As normal as possible'
Doctor becomes unwilling expert on ALS
Aug. 31,
2007 -- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurological disorder — better known as Lou Gehrig's disease — that causes muscles to waste away. It hasn't, however, deterred the determination of WUSM physician Jason Goldfeder. Since his diagnosis, Goldfeder has continued to teach students at the School of Medicine. See video of his story at ksdk.com.
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Not tennis elbow but smoker's knee
Cigarette smoking impairs ligament healing, researchers find
June 11,
2007 --
The list of reasons you shouldn't smoke has gotten longer. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are reporting that smoking interferes with ligament healing. Each year in the United States there are more than 20 million reported ligament injuries, and MCL injuries—which affect a ligament supporting the knee joint—are the most common. Studying mice with MCL injuries, the team discovered cigarette smoking impairs the recruitment of cells to the injury site and delays healing following ligament repair surgery.
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Sticking with what works
Nerves controlling muscles are best repaired with similar nerves
May 10,
2007 -- When repairing severed or damaged motor nerves with a donor nerve graft, surgeons have traditionally used a sensory nerve from another area of the patient's body. However, these patients often do not fully regain function in the injured area. But now a team of surgeons at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital has found that repairing a motor nerve in rats with an intact motor nerve yields better results than using a sensory nerve. The research appeared in the March issue of the journal Microsurgery.
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