Foot tapping and unilateral vertical jump performance in athletes after knee surgery: an explorative cross-sectional study.

Background: Guiding athletes through the rehabilitation process and judging the time at which return to sports can be enabled after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are still challenging processes. The purpose of this explorative cross-sectional study was to retrospectively compare unilateral vertical jump as well as vertical foot tapping outcomes in athletes returned to sports after ACL reconstruction (ACLR) with uninjured athletes.

Methods: Seven-teen ACLR athletes (male/female: 12/5) were examined 11 (6-23) months after their ACL injury and after return to sport clearance together with 67 uninjured athletes (male/female: 51/16).

A career in ambulatory medicine.

To meet the need and resolve long standing conflicts in the delivery of primary care in an age of specialization, I propose an experiment with a different type of primary medical education based on the separation of careers into community-oriented primary and continuing care of ambulatory patients and hospital-based intensive care of acutely ill bed patients. High-school graduates selected for interest, aptitude, and personality would follow a six-year pathway through college and medical school. A singular feature of the proposal would be the replacement of bedside training with an undergraduate traineeship of two to 2 1/2 years in the hospital ambulatory specialty clinics, emergency clinic, and a primary-care model practice unit, followed by a one-year externship in this primary-care center.

Plasma cephalins of patients with acute myocardial infarction.

In the plasma of patients with acute myocardial infarction the values for phosphatidyl ethanolamine are on the average 50% to 100% higher than in patients with chronic coronary heart disease and up to 400% higher than in normal individuals. Those for phosphatidyl serine are about 50% higher than in patients with chronic coronary heart disease and up to 300% higher than in normal individuals. Expressed in percentages of total phospholipids, the share of phosphatidyl ethanolamine in acute myocardial infarction is about twice as high as in chronic coronary heart disease and three times as high as in healthy persons.