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Jul
Nursing Home Falls and Hip Fractures
Residents of nursing homes are vulnerable to falls. Age, physical limitations, and underlying health conditions can all increase the risk factors. One unfortunate outcome of a fall is a hip fracture. These injuries can lead to serious complications, such as chronic pain, reduced ...
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Reasons Why Driver Actions Cause Car Accidents
Driving. For most of us, it's a daily activity, but as commonplace as it may seem, getting behind the wheel also comes with inherent risks. Every year, tens of millions of car accidents occur around the world, and almost 3,700 people are killed every day in crashes involvin...
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Jul
What Are the Most Common Swimming Pool Hazards?
As temperatures warm up, more people will be heading into pools in their backyards, communities, gyms, and public parks across Little Rock to cool off. While swimming pools can be a great place to play around or exercise on hot weather days, they also pose dangers. Take time to l...
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How Common Are Head Injuries After a Car Accident?
Like many other states, Arkansas sees its fair share of wrecks each year. While many of those individuals who are involved walk away from them unscathed, unfortunately, that's not the case for others. Head injuries, most of which lead to traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), oft...
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Examples of Negligence in a Hospital Setting
We trust hospitals and the medical staff working at them to take care of us when we have a medical issue arise. But what happens when we misplace our trust and something goes wrong? What if a doctor, nurse, or another member of the medical staff makes a mistake and negligence occ...
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What Qualifies as a Personal Injury?
If you listen to the radio, watch the news, view certain content on the internet, or look around as you're driving, you’re bound to encounter advertisements about personal injuries where an attorney recommends that you reach out for help if you’re hurt. While you...
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Arkansas 4th in Nation for Big Truck Fatalities
TRIP, a national Transportation Research Nonprofit, recently published its December 2023 report titled “America's Rolling Warehouses: Opportunities and Challenges on the Nation’s Freight Delivery System. ” Statistics in that report show that large truck tra...
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Jul
How Many People Are Affected by the Exactech Hip Replacement Recall?
Since the company’s beginning in the 1980s, Exactech, Inc. has been one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of artificial hip replacement devices. The Exactech Novation Crown Cup hip replacement device, with its Connexion GXL liner, was introduced on the market ...
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How To Raise Awareness of the Dangers of Pressure Injuries
More than 2. 5 million people develop pressure injuries every year in the United States. This type of injury is most common in the elderly and immobile, especially people who are in hospitals, nursing homes, or other long-term healthcare facilities. Pressure injuries, although the...
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Jul
What Are the Four Stages of Pressure Ulcers?
In the United States, more than 2. 5 million people develop pressure ulcers each year. You are at greater risk for pressure injuries if you have chronic incontinence, medical conditions that affect blood flow, memory problems, or overall immobility issues. As with a lot of potenti...
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Jul
6 McMath Woods Attorneys Listed in Arkansas Money & Politics’ 2023 Legal Elite
A few days ago, Arkansas Money & Politics (AMP) published the results of a poll of its readers in which they asked for recommendations for the best lawyers in our state. There were no restrictions placed on the attorneys' practice specialties. The publication’s o...
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Jul
What Are the First Signs of a Pressure Sore?
Pressure sores, commonly called bedsores or, more recently, pressure injuries, usually happen to people who are bedridden, mostly immobile, unconscious, in a coma, or possibly just unable to sense pain. If pressure sores are left untreated, they can result in serious, irreparable...
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