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...Despite shutting out his third round opponent, Daryl Cocozzo of Edinboro, 5-0, the Harvard All-American suffered severe knee damage.“We did everything we could with medical care,” O’Connor said. “We’re waiting on MRI results, but it sounds like a torn MCL.”The Crimson standout weathered the tear admirably, but he clearly struggled for the rest of the tournament. O’Connor faced fellow sophomore Bubba Jenkins from Penn State in the fourth round and dropped a very close...
...rough start this weekend, when sophomore starter Eric Eadington was forced to leave the game in the second inning due to tightness in his elbow.“We’re hoping for the best,” Vance said of Eadington, who is scheduled for an MRI today. “We’re going to rely on him, so we need him out there.”One positive from Saturday’s game was the emergence of freshman Ben Sestanovich, who pitched five scoreless innings of relief to keep Harvard in the game...
...It’s like looking at individual MRI slices of somebody’s brain without ever having known what a human brain looked like in the first place,” Goodman says...
During his first month at Fort Knox, an MRI of Cassidy's brain revealed no "hemorrhage, edema, mass effect or midline shift" that would clearly indicate TBI. Nonetheless, his case manager made a note in his file that "headaches are gradually worsening." Cassidy tried a slew of prescription pain relievers without success. Because there was no physical evidence of an injury, a civilian neurologist working for the Army who examined Cassidy in late April concluded that the headaches were most likely "posttraumatic migraines." The doctor prescribed two more kinds of drugs. It was the soldier's lone visit...
...absolutely necessary with head trauma and acute abdominal conditions. Minutes can make a difference in these cases - if, say, there's bleeding around your brain and you can't get an MRI - and the speed of a CT scan makes it worth the risk. But in most other situations, it's wise to let the doctor convince you it's worth it, before consenting to the scan. Ask your doctor what decisions he or she plans to make with the information from the scan. What other tests could yield the same information? Would an MRI be better...