Publications by authors named "Benjamin Currie"
Cervical spine and vestibulo-ocular screening in elite female athletes with a history of concussion.
Musculoskelet Sci Pract
September 2025
Background: Female athletes are more susceptible to sports-related concussions and experience greater and prolonged symptomatology. Changes in the cervico-vestibular systems have been observed in the acute phase post-concussion, but it is unknown if residual impairments persist in the following 12 months.
Objectives: To determine if there was an association between baseline screening of the cervical spine, vestibular and oculomotor systems in female athletes with and without a history of concussion.
Objectives: To describe the incidence, severity, burden and sport specific characteristics of injuries reported in elite diving athletes.
Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.
Methods: Medical attention and time-loss injuries from 63 (43 female, 20 male) Australian national diving programme athletes were prospectively collected over four seasons (September 2018-August 2022).
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the types and frequency of health problems, particularly injuries, among competitive diving athletes, focusing on the common occurrence of lumbar spine injuries.
- After reviewing 2554 articles, 28 studies met the criteria, revealing an injury incidence range from 2.1% to 22.2%, with shoulder and lower back injuries being the most common.
- The research highlights a significant prevalence of low back pain in divers, along with various illnesses, suggesting that up to 1 in 5 athletes may experience injuries or health issues during competition.
Purpose: It is postulated that ILD causes PA dilatation independent of the presence of pulmonary hypertension (PH), so the use of PA size to screen for PH is not recommended. The aims of this study were to investigate the association of PA size with the presence and severity of ILD and to assess the diagnostic accuracy of PA size for detecting PH.
Methods: Incident patients referred to a tertiary PH centre underwent baseline thoracic CT, MRI and right heart catheterisation (RHC).
Background: Patients with pulmonary hypertension due to left heart disease (PH-LHD) have overlapping clinical features with pulmonary arterial hypertension making diagnosis reliant on right heart catheterization (RHC). This study aimed to investigate computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) derived cardiopulmonary structural metrics, in comparison to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of left heart disease in patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension.
Methods: Patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension who underwent CTPA, MRI and RHC were identified.
Background: Residents of assisted living facilities who fall may not be seriously ill or injured, but policies often require immediate transport to an emergency department regardless of the patient's condition.
Objective: To determine whether unnecessary transport can be avoided.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Article Synopsis
- The first effective surgical treatment for strabismus emerged in the early 19th century, with key developments occurring just before the invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1850.
- Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach from Germany is credited with pioneering strabismus surgery in 1839, while William Gibson in the U.S. performed similar surgeries as early as 1818 but did not publish his findings.
- By the early 1840s, American surgeons like John Dix began to adopt and report on strabismus surgeries, leading to excitement in the field, though they did not achieve significant breakthroughs during that time.
Abstract Objective. Emergency medical services (EMS) often transports patients who suffer simple falls in assisted-living facilities (ALFs). An EMS "falls protocol" could avoid unnecessary transport for many of these patients, while ensuring that patients with time-sensitive conditions are transported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the effects of probe orientation on the accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements obtained with pneumatonometry (Model 30 Classic Pneumatonometer, Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, Depew, NY) and with a handheld electronic tonometer (Tono-Pen XL, Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, Depew, NY).
Materials And Methods: Six enucleated human eyes were obtained fewer than 24 hours postmortem. IOP was maintained at 10, 20, and 30 mm Hg, sequentially, via liquid column manometry.