67 results about "Joint sprains" patented technology

A built-in or added-on extension is situated upon a side of a shoe so as to minimize or prevent injury caused by inversion of a foot / ankle during athletic or other activities. The extension protrudes laterally out from the side of the shoe and has a substantial horizontal component, with an outer surface portion(s) adapted in shape, size, and / or placement so that said portion(s) will impact the floor / ground upon inversion of the foot / ankle but that none of the extension impacts, rubs, slides, or otherwise contacts the ground / floor during normal activities of the wearer. Said impact / contact only occurs when there is significant ankle / foot inversion, that is, enough to potentially cause a mild lateral ankle sprain. The preferred extension cushions and / or stops inversion at an angle of inversion and / or at a time during the inversion wherein the wearer may recover and straighten his foot / ankle before serious injury to the ankle.

A built-in or added-on extension is situated upon a side of a shoe so as to minimize or prevent injury caused by inversion of a foot / ankle during athletic or other activities. The extension protrudes laterally out from the side of the shoe and has a substantial horizontal component, with an outer surface portion(s) adapted in shape, size, and / or placement so that said portion(s) will impact the floor / ground upon inversion of the foot / ankle but that none of the extension impacts, rubs, slides, or otherwise contacts the ground / floor during normal activities of the wearer. Said impact / contact only occurs when there is significant ankle / foot inversion, that is, enough to potentially cause a mild lateral ankle sprain. The preferred extension cushions and / or stops inversion at an angle of inversion and / or at a time during the inversion wherein the wearer may recover and straighten his foot / ankle before serious injury to the ankle.

The present invention discloses an orthopedic disease treatment external application traditional Chinese medicine composition, a preparation method and an application thereof. The orthopedic disease treatment external application traditional Chinese medicine composition is a drug preparation prepared from the following traditional Chinese medicine raw materials by weight: 20-60 parts of cape jasmine, 10-40 parts of curcuma longa l, 5-30 parts of angelica dahurica, 5-30 parts of clematis chinensis, 5-30 parts of papaya, 1-5 parts of boswellia carteri, 1-5 parts of commiphora myrrha eng1, 0.2-2 parts of camphor, and 0.2-2 parts of borneol. The invention discloses the application of the orthopedic disease treatment external application traditional Chinese medicine composition in preparation of drug for treating acute and chronic soft tissue injuries, joint sprains, hyperosteogeny, rheumatalgia, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbar muscle strain and sciatica. The orthopedic disease treatment external application traditional Chinese medicine composition is the toxic herb-free pure traditional Chinese medicine preparation, and has characteristics of significant treatment effect, no shift, low cost, high efficacy, rapid effect, and no toxic-side effect.

The invention discloses an arm training device high in safety. The device includes a training frame, at least one elastic device and a safety device. The training frame includes an antebrachium plateand a postbrachium plate, the rear end of the antebrachium plate is hinged to the front end of the postbrachium plate, fixation belts are arranged on the antebrachium plate and the postbrachium plate,and the training frame is fixed on the arms through the fixation belts. The elastic devices are installed on the training frame for providing resilience force when the included angle between the antebrachium plate and the postbrachium plate is changed. The safety device is installed at the articulation position of the training frame to prevent the rapid rebound of the antebrachium plate. The armtraining device high in safety can effectively prevent joint sprains and scratches in the training process and the safety of training is ensured.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating soft tissue injury. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is composed of the following raw medicinal materials by weight: 15-30g of myrrh, 15-30g of teasel root, 15-30g of raw rhubarb, 10-20g of red flower, 10-20g of gardenia jasminoides ellis, 10-20g of root of common peony, 10-20g of radix angelicae, 30-60g of rhizoma drynariae, 15-30g of olibanum, 10-20g of peach kernel, and 5-10g of camphorated oil. A preparation method of the traditional Chinese medicine composition is as follows: weighing the raw medicinal materials by weight, cleaning, drying in the shade, grinding into fine powder, adding white spirit with the alcohol strength of 50-55 degrees in the medicinal powder, wherein the weight of the white spirit is 6-7 times of the total weight of the medicinal powder, sealing and soaking for 10-15 days, filtering to remove slag, taking out clear liquor, adding 5-10g of camphorated oil in each 500g of clear liquor to obtain the traditional Chinese medicine composition. The traditional Chinese medicine composition disclosed by the invention is fast in taking effect and short in treatment course in treating soft tissue injury, acute lumbar sprain, acute lumbar muscle degeneration, joint sprain and stiff neck, and is simple in preparation method and low in cost.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine plaster for treating neck-shoulder and lumbocrural pain. The traditional Chinese medicine plaster is prepared from the following active pharmaceutical ingredients: radix angelicae lateralis preparata, radix paeoniae rubra, safflower, sangusis draconis, catechu, olibanum, myrrha, radix gentianae macrophyllae, semen strychni, radix saposhnikoviae and radix glycyrrhizae. The traditional Chinese medicine plaster is reasonable in formula, significant in efficacy, low in price, has a good effect on relieving pain caused by various reasons, is especially applicable to pain caused by cervical spondylosis, lumbar muscle degeneration, psoatic strain, rheumatism rheumatoid arthritis, uarthritis, joint sprains, degenerative osteoarthritis and the like, and has no obvious adverse effects.

The invention discloses a medicinal composition for treating rheumatism and rheumatoid disease. The medicinal composition comprises black ant, processed radix aconiti, processed radix aconiti kusnezoffii, frankincense, epimedium herb, cassia twig, mulberry, Ningpo yam rhizome and the like. The medicinal composition has the effects of relaxing muscles and stimulating blood circulation and expelling wind and removing dampness, is used for anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, acroanesthesia, fasciitis, arthralgia, myalgia and difficult walking, has remarkable curative effect on diseases such as rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, cervical vertebra, lumbar vertebra and scapulohumeral periarthritis, waist and leg pain, arthroncus, acroanesthesia, joint sprain, traumatic injury, lumbar muscle strain, hyperosteogeny, spur, heel spur, postpartum rheumatism and the like, and has no toxic or side effect.

The invention discloses an external ointment for treating injuries from falls and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of science of Chinese materia medica. The external ointment disclosed by the invention comprises the following raw materials: stachys sieboldii, erianthus arundinaceus, cape bracketplant herb with root, sedum aizoon, tomentulose corydalis dried herb, edgeworthia chrysantha, henry biondia herb with root, vaccinium bracteatum, piper hancei maxim, begonia evansiania, elaeocarpus hainanensis, comely indigo, semen cuscutae, effuse baliospermum root and leaf, lacerate wood fern rhizome or leaf and plexippus. The external ointment disclosed by the invention has the effects of expelling wind and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, stopping bleeding and promoting granulation, and clearing away heat and drying dampness, can be widely applied to treatment of various injuries from falls such as falls, crush injuries, contused wounds, sprains and the like, and has an accurate curative effect on soft tissue injuries such as joint sprains, pulled muscle, blood stasis and swelling and the like. In addition, the external ointment also can be applicable to indisposition caused by various severe and lingering pulmonary injuries and sprains, and is significant in curative effect, quick to take effect, free of toxic and side effects, low in cost and worthy of wide popularization and application in large hospitals.

Provided is an ankle sprain assistance and auxiliary rehabilitation support, comprising a main frame. The support is characterized in that the rehabilitation support also comprises a leg support, a foot pad, and an analog gait swing mechanism. The main frame comprises bottom support plates, side support plates, and a back junction plate. The bottom support plate is rotatably provided with the side support plate. The back junction plate is arranged between the back parts of the two side support plates. The leg support is arranged between the two side support plates. The foot pad is arranged between the two bottom support plates. The invention provides the ankle sprain assistance and auxiliary rehabilitation support which is rich in functions, has four working modes in different phases, and good rehabilitation effect.

The invention discloses an external-application medicine for treating sprained ankle and relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicines for orthopaedics department. The external-application medicine for treating sprained ankle is prepared from the following Chinese herbal medicines by weight: 40g of angelica sinensis, 40g of turmeric, 40g of moutan bark, 50g of rheum officinale, 20g of asarum, 20g of crude aconite root, 20g of spina gleditsiae, 20g of cassia twig, 20g of garden balsam stem, 20g of calyx melo, 20g of rhizoma corydalis, 20g of frankincense, 20g of myrrh, 20g of red paeony root and 20g of dandelion. A preparation method of the external-application medicine for treating sprained ankle comprises the following steps of: porphyrizing the Chinese herbal medicines in weight proportion, adding sesame oil or other oils and blending into paste, taking defined amount of ointment according to the size of an injured part, and applying the ointment to a wounded part. The external-application medicine for treating sprained ankle can inhibit an inflammatory reaction and speed up absorption of static blood, so that the aims of stopping bleeding, stopping pain, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling are achieved.

A Chinese medicine "Blood-circulating ointment" for treating joint sprain, muscle pull, bone fracture, joint dislocation, synovitis, etc, especially the joint adhesion, is prepared from 14 Chinese-medicinal materials including bugleweed, phytolacca root, scutellaria root, red sage root, etc.

The traumatic injury treating sprayed medicine liquid is prepared through dissolving camphor in ethanol, soaking dragon's blood and filtering, soaking brazil wood, corydalis tuber, safflower and other eight kinds of Chinese medicinal materials in ethanol and filtering, merging the three kinds of medicine liquid, re-filtering, letting stand, taking the supernatant and packing in the packing container with sprayer. It has the functions of promoting blood circulation to disperse blood clots, eliminating swelling, dredging meridian, stopping bleeding, relieving pain, promoting granulation and astringing; may be used in treating traumatic injuries, including bone injury, ligament sprain, joint sprain, muscular damage, tissue blood clots, etc.; and has quick and lasting effect, no toxicity, no allergy and no pollution.

The invention discloses a knee joint sprain rehabilitation training device which comprises a bed frame, a knee joint training assembly, a bed board body and a driving assembly, the bed board body is installed on the bed frame, the knee joint training assembly is installed on the bed board body, and the driving assembly is installed below the bed board body. The bed board body is composed of a fixed bed board, a movable bed board and a bearing bed board, the fixed bed board is located between the movable bed board and the bearing bed board and fixed to the bed frame, the bottom of the movable bed board and the bottom of the bearing bed board are connected with a driving assembly, and a knee joint training assembly is composed of two sets of linked and alternately bent shank arms and thigh arms. The knee joint sprain rehabilitation training can be completed under the driving of only one group of motors, the training speed can be automatically adjusted according to training requirements, the angles of the movable bed plate and the bearing bed plate on the bed plate body can be adjusted, rehabilitation training can be performed in a lying or sitting state, stable conversion is achieved, and multi-body-position rehabilitation training is achieved.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine composition and gel cataplasm for treating preliminary bone fracture and a preparation method of the gel cataplasm. The traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises safflower, Chinese starjasmine stem, amur cork tree bark, frankincense, mulberry twig, honeysuckle stem, gardenia, tinospora sinensis merr, myrrh, uncaria, mint, rheum officinale and radix clematidis. Aqueous extract soup and powder of the traditional Chinese medicine composition are taken as active ingredients to be prepared into the gel cataplasm, and clinical observation test shows that good treatment effect on joint motion inconvenience including closed fracture, dislocation, joint sprain, muscle strain, tendon folding injury and unknown swelling in the preliminary stage of sprain and dampen and fracture is achieved. The gel cataplasm has the advantages of large drug-loading capacity, long drug release time, good breathability, no pulling of androgenic hair, comfortableness in use, no skin irritation and anaphylactic reaction, little toxic and side effects, convenience in use, capability of being applied to parts of the body for multiple times and the like.

The traumatic injury treating sprayed medicine liquid is prepared through dissolving camphor in ethanol, soaking frankincense, myrrh, dragon's blood, rosin, borneol and amber in ethanol and filtering, merging the two kinds of medicine liquid, adding water, letting stand, taking the supernatant and packing in the packing container with sprayer. It has the functions of promoting blood circulation to disperse blood clots, eliminating swelling, dredging meridian, stopping bleeding, relieving pain, promoting granulation and astringing; may be used in treating traumatic injuries, including bone injury, ligament sprain, joint sprain, muscular damage, tissue blood clots, etc.; and has quick and lasting effect, no toxicity, no allergy and no pollution.

The invention relates to a blood activating and stasis removing paste. The drug is prepared from the following raw materials by weight: 7-12 parts of Chinese angelica, 14-19 parts of panax notoginseng, 15-20 parts of safflower, 14-22 parts of turmeric, 7-15 parts of corydalis tuber, 12-16 parts of Radix Linderae, and 10-15 parts of radix aucklandiae. The blood activating and stasis removing paste provided by the invention has special curative effect on joint sprain, soft tissue contusion, acute lumbar sprain, lumbar muscle strain, scapulohumeral periarthritis, non-ulcerated chilblain, erythema nodosum and the like.

The invention discloses a blood circulation promoting ointment and a preparation method thereof. The blood circulation activating ointment comprises components in parts by weight as follows: 10-20 parts of donkey-hide gelatin, 40-70 parts of tiger bone glue, 1-7 parts of safflower, 20-30 parts of honeysuckle flowers, 8-18 parts of frankincense, 10-20 parts of myrrh, 10-18 parts of peach kernels, 30-40 parts of garden balsam stems and 1,500-2,200 parts of vinegar. The whole formula is clear in treatment rule, and all medicines are reasonably compatible with one another to have a synergistic effect; the ointment has functions of diminishing inflammations, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and the like, has good effects on treating diseases such as joint sprains, muscle strains, fractures, dislocation, pain in necks, shoulders, waists and lower extremities, synovitis and the like, takes effect quickly and is high in cure rate (the cure rate is 98.5% and the total effective rate is 99.5%). The ointment achieves the treatment purpose through medicine smearing, causes less pain to patient and takes effect quickly.

The invention relates to a method for producing a warming pad with activated carbon. The method comprises the following steps of S1 powder preparing, S2 mixing, S3 forming, S4 drying and S5 packaging.According to the method, a heating body and herbal medicine are organically combined, heating in winter can be achieved, the functions of refreshing and hot compress with the medicine are achieved, and obvious healthcare and treatment functions are achieved on swelling, inhibited bending and stretching, stomach colds, stomachaches and other symptoms caused by rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, joint sprain, strain of soft tissue around joints and the like.

The invention discloses external medicinal wine for treatment of fall injuries. The external medicinal made from 40-50 degree white spirit in soaking comprises, by weight, 5-15 parts of paris polyphylla, 10-20 parts of rhizome corydalis, 1-5 parts of rhizoma arisaematis and 1-5 parts of raw pinellia. Compared with the prior art, the external medicinal wine has the advantages that four kinds of medicinal materials are subjected to compatibility, simpleness in prescription is realized, synergistic interaction among all active ingredients is achieved, the obtained medicinal wine has good efficacies in invigorating blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, relieving swelling and pain, removing stasis and promoting tissue regeneration, bone skin can be effectively promoted to rapidly grow, reset and heal, the external medicinal wine can be widely applied to treatment of all kinds of fall injuries of fall injuries, crush injuries, contusion, sprain and the like, and effectiveness in treatment of soft tissue injuries of joint sprain, muscle strain, blood stasis swelling is achieved.

The invention provides a protective device for a foot ankle joint ligament, wherein the protective device includes an ankle brace, a foot arch pad, a plurality of fixing structures and ankle protection pads. The ankle brace is worn at a foot ankle joint of a patient; the foot arch pad is placed at the bottom of the ankle brace and at the foot sole position of the patient; the outer side of the ankle brace is wrapped with a group of fixing structures and the ankle protection pads, wherein the ankle protection pads are attached to a medial malleolus, lateral malleolus and foot contour of the patient respectively; with a biomechanics principle, and through the support of the foot arch, the stress state of the foot ankle bone joint and the ligament is improved, the foot ankle bone joint ligament is protected, and the secondary injury is reduced; the protrusion of bones is fully utilized, the position of the protective device is fixed, and slippage failure is avoided. The effects of increasing the ankle joint stability and preventing and treating sprain of ankle joint are achieved, and new treatment and protection measures are provided for vast patients with foot ankle joint ligamentousinjury and after foot ankle surgery.

The invention relates to a graphene heating sticker and a preparation method thereof. The heating sticker comprises, by weight, 40-60 parts of iron powder, 15-20 parts of graphene powder, 20-30 partsof sodium chloride, 5-10 parts of vermiculite powder, 1-5 parts of water-absorbing resin and 10-15 parts of traditional Chinese herbal medicine powder. A vermiculite heating body, herbal medicine andthe graphene are combined to form a functional layer so that the heating sticker can be used for heating in winter, also has refreshing and medicinal hot compress functions, and has an obvious health-care treatment effect on swelling, pain and difficult flexion-extension caused by rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, joint sprain, joint surrounding soft tissue strain and the like, stomach cold, stomachache and other diseases.

The invention discloses a protector for preventing ankle joint sprain. The protector comprises an ankle guard body provided with a left vertical guard plate, a right vertical guard plate and a connecting bottom plate, wherein the ankle guard body is integrally made of a metal or high polymer material plate, and a U-shaped space formed among the left vertical guard plate, the right vertical guard plate and the connecting bottom plate is used for allowing a heel to be inserted in; front portions of upper ends of the left vertical protection plate and the right vertical protection plate are higher than the anterior articular surface of the talus, rear portions of the upper ends of the left vertical protection plate and the right vertical protection plate are higher than the posterior articular surface of the talus, a receding opening which extends downwards and avoids the malleolus medialis or the lateral malleolus is formed between the front portions and the rear portions of the upper ends of the vertical protection plates, and inner walls of the left vertical protection plate and the right vertical protection plate are each provided with a soft cushion. The ankle joint sprain prevention device can be used for prevention of ankle joint sprain, post-injury protection of a patient suffering from primary ankle joint sprain and symptom control of a patient suffering from repeated ankle joint sprain, can generate powerful protection on high-intensity exercise and physical work, particularly on the conditions of mountain complex terrain, wet and slippery ground conditions and the like, and is suitable for popularization and application.

The invention discloses medicinal liquor for treating bruises and sprains. The medicinal liquor for treating bruises and sprains comprises, by weight, 1-5 parts of radix angelicae sinensis, 2-8 parts of radix flemingiaes, 3-12 parts of folium hibisci, 3-10 parts of evodia lepta, 2-11 parts of tinospora sinensis merr, 3-12 parts of folium ilicis purpurea, 5-15 parts of scutellariae barbatae, 1-8 parts of caulis sargentodoxae, 4-12 parts of dipsacus roots, 5-17 parts of erycibe obtusifolia benth, 4-12 parts of cortex erythrinae, 8-18 parts of red flowers, 7-15 parts of drynaria total flavonoids and 110-230 parts of white spirit over 52 degrees. The medicinal liquor for treating bruises and sprains can treat bruises, joint sprains, tendon injuries, ligamentous injuries, fracture, dislocation and other accidental bruises and sprains, and has the advantages of being good in effect, high in cure speed, small in side effect and wide in adaptive crowd.

The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine formula capable of promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicines, and aims to solve the problem that an existing traditional Chinese medicine formula is poor in treatment effect on traumatic injury, soft tissue injury, joint sprain and fracture. The formula is prepared from 250 g of minium, 20 g of frankincense, 20 g of myrrh, 20 g of native copper, 20 g of ground beetle, 20 g of catechu, 7 g of safflower, 7 g of angelica sinensis, 7 g of peach kernel, 10 g of rheum officinale, 7 g of rhizoma drynariae, 10 g of ligusticum wallichii, 25 g of dragon's blood, 10 g of rosin, 2 g of musk, 5 g of borneol and 500 g of sesame oil. The formula disclosed by the invention can be used for effectively treating traumatic injury, soft tissue injury, joint sprain and fracture, and has the effects of relaxing muscles and stimulating blood circulation, relieving swelling and pain and promoting reunion of fractured tendons and bones.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for treating rheumatoid arthritis and traumatic injury pains. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the following raw materials as effective constituents in parts by weight: Angelica sinensis, leonurus, peach kernels, red flowers, anisetree barks, homalomena occulta, herba lagotis, frankincense, myrrh, oriental variegated coralbean barks, lycopodium clavatum, garden balsam stems, luffa stem, rhizoma drynariae, corydalis amabilis, root-bark of monkshoodvine, hematoxylon and scutellaria indica. The traditional Chinese medicine composition has the beneficial effects that the drugs are combined through drug matching, so that the effects of the drugs play a synergetic effect, and the treatment for pain from rheumatism, traumatic injury arthralgia and myalgia, traumatic injury sore pain and joint sprain can be effectively realized, the curative effect for the diseases such as traumatic injury, arthralgia and myalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, trauma stasis pain, rheumatic joint pain, blood stasis sore pain, soft tissue contusion and joint sprain is definite, the course of treatment is shorter, and the effect is better.

The invention discloses a cooling therapy spray. The main components of the cooling therapy spray comprise normal butane, isobutene, propane, accessory aromatic and alcohol solvent. The cooling therapy spray is a novel anodyne, has the functions of detumescence, acesodyne and tumescence gore prevention, and is mainly used for joint sprain, muscle strain, bruise, contused wound (not breaking skin), slight burn, and the like. The cooling therapy spray can produce cooling spray quickly, relieve tumescence caused by congestion of scrape and sprain of the body, can absorb heat quantity for slightly burned skin, reduce burn depth, and alleviate pain of a cut.

The invention discloses traditional Chinese medicine for treating traumatic injury, and belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from the following substances: safflowers, radix angelicae sinensis tail, frankincense, myrrh, cortex moutan, herba schizonepetae, radix notoginseng, ramulus mori, radix paeoniae rubra, dragon's blood, garden balsam stems, cortex lycii, fructus aurantia, fructus zanthoxyli, radix stemonae, rhizoma chuanxiong powder, caulis tripterygii wilfordii roots and edible wine. The traditional Chinese medicineprovided by the invention has the efficacies of restoring soft tissue fatigue and repairing injury, and has the very good recovery effects on various kinds of visible injuries such as traumatic injury, joint sprain, bruise, knife cut wound, bone fracture bone connection, bone fracture and collision injury.

The invention discloses a formula and a preparation method of fracture-setting powder. The formula consists of the following crude medicines in parts by weight: 10-12 parts of frankincense, 9-11 parts of myrrh, 11-13 parts of native copper, 14-16 parts of borax, 11-13 parts of radix angelica sinensis, 15-17 parts of radix achyranthis bidentatae, 10-12 parts of panax notoginseng, 15-17 parts of dragon's blood, 11-13 parts of rhizoma pinelliae, 14-16 parts of ground beetle and 10-12 parts of drynaria baronii. The ground beetle and the drynaria baronii are fried together with wine until the ground beetle and the drynaria baronii are dried; the native copper is fried together with vinegar until the native copper becomes hot; and all crude medicines are ground and sieved, fully mixed and ground into about 200-mesh fine powder, and then the fine powder is sealed and conserved. The fracture-setting powder disclosed by the invention has functions of promoting blood circulation, removing stasis, promoting tissue regeneration, relieving pain and setting fracture; and the fracture-setting powder has an effect of curing such orthopedic diseases as fracture, joint sprain, arthritis, hyperostosis and the like.

The invention discloses external-use medicinal liquor for treating falling injuries. The external-use medicinal liquor is prepared by soaking, by weight, 5-15 parts of rhizoma paridis, 5-15 parts of myrrh, 1-5 parts of ground beeltle, 1-5 parts of bile arisaema and 1-5 parts of unprocessed rhizoma pinelliae with baijiu with the alcohol concentration of 40% to 50%. Compared with the prior art, only five medicinal materials are used for compatibility, the composition is simple, all the bulk drugs achieve a synergistic effect, so that the obtained medicinal liquor has the good effects of invigorating circulation of blood to dissipate blood stasis, relieving swelling and pain and removing stasis and promoting fresh blood production, fast growth, restoration and healing of sclerotin and skin can be effectively promoted, and the external-use medicinal liquor can be widely applied to treating falling injuries, crush injuries, bruise, sprain and other falling injuries, and is remarkable in curative effect on joint sprain, muscle pull, blood stasis swelling and other soft tissue injuries.