Recently I saw a teenage girl for a follow-up from the emergency room. She had been lifting a heavy back pack at school when she heard and felt a pop in her shoulder. Although in a lot of pain she thought it would get better after taking Advil.   That night, however, her mom had […]

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It is a call that pediatricians get all too often. “My child fell and hit his head on concrete. He is now getting a goose egg on his forehead. Should I take him to the emergency room?”   Talking to the distraught parent the first question would be how is he acting now? Does he […]

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Soccer-related injuries are on the increase. There is a need for increased efforts to prevent these injuries…. Music therapy for preterm infants and their parents has been confirmed favorably on infant respiratory rate and maternal anxiety.   SOCCER-RELATED INJURIES TREATED IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS: 1990-2014. by Nicholas A. Smith, etc. Pediatrics, Vol. 138, n. 4, October […]

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