Publications by authors named "Jonathan S King"
Background: No studies to date have evaluated the injury patterns in professional arena football. The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics of general injury patterns in the Arena Football League.
Hypotheses: (1) Game injury rates are higher than are practice injury rates, (2) a small number of injuries are related to collision with the boards, and (3) athletes playing on both offense and defense have higher injury rates than do athletes playing either offense or defense alone.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of contaminants on, as well as the quality of, reprocessed shaver blades.
Methods: We assessed 7 new shaver blades and 27 shaver blades that had been reprocessed with mechanical cleaning, functional testing, and sterilization with ethylene oxide. A spectrophotometer measured the amount of nucleic acid and protein.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare chondroplasty performed with an ExoJet high-pressure fluid-driven burr (Mitek, Norwood, MA), a mechanical shaver, and a bipolar radiofrequency (RF) wand on articular cartilage-covered condyles taken from sheep cadavers that were induced to have an osteoarthritic-like condition, and corresponding healthy control tissue.
Type Of Study: Experimental designed animal cadaveric, biochemical, and histologic study.
Methods: Sheep condyles were used as a source of articular cartilage.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of meniscal tissue cut with 3 different surgical instruments (traditional shavers, bipolar radiofrequency (RF) wands, and a high-pressure saline jet) and that of control menisci.
Type Of Study: Experimental design, biochemical and histologic study.
Methods: Sixty samples of sheep menisci were separated into 4 groups.