Browsing by Subject "Wood"

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    Acute penetrating injury of the spinal cord by a wooden spike with delayed surgery: a case report
    (Wolters Kluwer, 2023) Guest, James D.; Luo, Zhuojing; Liu, Yansheng; Gao, Hongkun; Wang, Dianchun; Xu, Xiao-Ming; Zhu, Hui; Neurology, School of Medicine
    Rarely, penetrating injuries to the spinal cord result from wooden objects, creating unique challenges to mitigate neurological injury and high rates of infection and foreign body reactions. We report a man who sustained a penetrating cervical spinal cord injury from a sharpened stick. While initially tetraparetic, he rapidly recovered function. The risks of neurological deterioration during surgical removal made the patient reluctant to consent to surgery despite the impalement of the spinal cord. A repeat MRI on day 3 showed an extension of edema indicating progressive inflammation. On the 7th day after injury, fever and paresthesias occurred with a large increase in serum inflammatory indicators, and the patient agreed to undergo surgical removal of the wooden object. We discuss the management nuances related to wood, the longitudinal evolution of MRI findings, infection risk, surgical risk mitigation and technique, an inflammatory marker profile, long-term recovery, and the surprisingly minimal neurological deficits associated with low-velocity midline spinal cord injuries. The patient had an excellent clinical outcome. The main lessons are that a wooden penetrating central nervous system injury has a high risk for infection, and that surgical removal from the spinal cord should be performed soon after injury and under direct visualization.
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    Contradiction: Permanent Temporal
    (2016) Li, Shuyu; Hudnall, Katie
    Each individual utilizes memory and experience as the path to explore unknown, and memory functions even more significantly when one physically or mentally dislocated from the environment where the memory was created in. People always try to make memory more accessible by using or manipulating tangible objects, for example: photography, videotapes, and sound tracks. Not only to record life, but also to seek permanence since each human being only has limited time of consciousness. As memory, it’s permanent, as experience, it’s relatively temporary.
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    Pieces from the heart of nature
    (2023) Niloofar, Alibakhshi; Holder, Dawn
    This paper discusses the establishment of a new connection between my internal and external world through breaking personal boundaries and transforming geometric forms in artwork. While my inner world is highly organized, my outer world appears disorderly. However, imperfection adds to the world's beauty, and the ultimate goal of this paper is to allow the audience to grasp this transformation and gain a new perspective on life through my artwork. The final form that I present remains faithful to the original forms while meeting the desired outcome of conveying the transformative power of breaking personal boundaries and embracing shortcomings in the external world. This experience brings both my audiences and me a new perspective on life. Using wood as a material in art can help bridge the gap between the internal and external worlds. The process of working with wood can be meditative and introspective, enabling the artist to connect with their inner self while creating a physical representation of their thoughts and emotions. Additionally, the idea of finding order and hope in apparent disorder can be reflected through using letters and wood as materials in art. The composition of the letters can come from an orderly mind, and by overlapping and lining up the letters, the idea is conveyed that there is still order and hope. Similarly, the natural patterns and variations in wood can represent order and beauty in the midst of chaos, making it a fitting material for art.