"Three frightful years," said Hirsch, who sustained back and leg injuries and a skull fracture.
He has no idea, he told me, how many concussions he sustained; back then, "you didn't take yourself out of the game unless you stuffed two ammonia tablets up your nose and your head didn't jerk back.
The Devils were also without center Jason Arnott, who sustained back spasms Friday; center Bobby Holik, who missed his second consecutive game with a sore knee; and defenseman Scott Niedermayer, who missed his fifth game following arthroscopic knee surgery.
Although the mission was a success, the Soyuz's equipment module failed to separate properly from the reentry module, and so the craft followed an unusually steep trajectory to Earth and made a rough landing in the Kazakhstan steppes, during which Yi sustained back injuries that later required her hospitalization.
John sustained back injuries and his bike was destroyed in the accident, but he alleged the company refused his request for assistance with medical costs.
As a chronic pain patient, Madsen, who sustained back and spine injuries from two car accidents and playing football in his youth, was wearing a Fentanyl patch to alleviate his discomfort.
Federer also reached the finals of the 2014 ATP World Tour Finals to face Djokovic again but withdrew from the final due to another sustained back injury from his semifinal match against Wawrinka in which he triumphed in three sets after saving four match points.
On each test day, subjects were asked to lie in the prone position on a treatment table and perform sustained back extension for 90 seconds.
The sustained back extension test [ 23] and the number of abdominal curls performed in 3 minutes [ 24, 25] were used to measure trunk muscle performance.
A 72-year-old woman with essentially unremarkable past medical history fell and sustained back injury and was noted to have a T 11 compression fracture without any neurovascular compromise.
