There are many ways to clean a machine gun. Some of those ways are better than the one described in this study: “Unusual ignition of a bullet causing hand injury: case report,” Abdul Kerim Yapici, Salim Kemal Tuncer, Umit Kaldirim, Ibrahim Arziman, Mehmet Toygar, Injury Extra, epub November 19, 2013. The authors, at Gulhane Military […]
Tag: injury
Frozen Peas vs. Gel-Packs
In the absence of a purpose-made ice-pack or gel-pack, people sometimes grab a packet of frozen peas to cool-down an injury. But just how efficient is a pack of peas? Various research projects have undertaken experiments to find out. In 2005, for example, investigators from the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, […]
How Exactly Did You Get an Oven Mitt in Your Rectum?
A silicone oven mitt. (NOTE: The oven mitt described in the study was of more traditional design and construction.) When unusual objects turn up in awkward places, that’s not necessarily the end of the story. A doctor who succumbs to embarrassment or simple amusement — and fails to ask how those objects got there — […]
Cow’s-horn athletic mystery
This week’s Unexpected Medical Phrase of the Week phrase is: “athletic injury by a foreign object, cow’s horn“. It occurs in the study “Nonobstetrics vulvovaginal injuries: mechanism and outcome,” Dubravko Habek and Tomislav Kulaš, Arch Gynecol Obstet., 2007 Feb;275(2):93-7. The authors, at Zagreb University, list numerous kinds of injury, including: “Straddle accident due to fall […]