Menthol has been regularly utilized as a treatment in sports related injuries for many years, yet little is known about its physiological interactions or its effect on performance. Our previous study indicates that topically applied menthol may...
Sick--Personal narratives; Sick--Psychology; Sick--Biography--History and criticism; Narrative medicine
This dissertation uses a phenomenological and sociological lens to explore how non-fiction illness narratives help us understand how perception of the self is disrupted because of serious illness or injury. Specifically, I use the French...
The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of short-term high-intensity resistance training on time to exhaustion at maximal aerobic output. It was hypothesized that 2 weeks of training will induce improvements in performance at maximal...
Knee--Mechanical properties; Knee--Pathophysiology; Gait in humans; Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is associated with decline in functional capacity and ultimately leads to Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) in many of these patients. Exercise regimens prior to surgery may potentially enhance pre and post TKA...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Warriors; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Reproductions
Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450-440 BCE. "One of the most frequently copied Greek statues was the Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polykleitos, a work that epitomizes the intellectual rigor of...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Nudes; Genitals; Muscles; Clothing & dress; Capes (Clothing); Headbands (Headgear); Headgear; Victories; Tree stumps; Trees; Archaeological sites; Ruins; Expedition...
Supported by two workers from Mykonos. “Island marble. Found in the building known conventionally as the House of the Diadoumenos, on Delos, in 1894. The hands are missing. The tip of the nose is restored. The youth is depicted nude, frontally,...
Pansy Fay Shook stands in front of an unidentified young man. Both have their arms out to the sides as he holds her hands. Both stand with their weight on one leg with the other leg pointed out to the side. The room has wood plank flooring. Pansy...
Orthopedic braces; Boys; Women; Hospitals; People with disabilities; Writing
On the balcony of a brick building, Jean Thomas, seated, assists a shirtless boy, standing, with a brace on his left leg, with writing on a pad of paper. The boy is likely at Stephenson orthopedic hospital in Ashland, Kentucky, being treated by Dr....
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co. Printers, Binders and Blank Book Manufacturers," with printing press shown; narrow rectangular advertisement for "JPM & Co....
Cheerleading; University of Louisville--Buildings;
Members of the 1986 Cardinal Cheerleaders perform beneath the west-facing overhang of the Humanities Building. A row of six men each act as a base to a woman performing a stag position (one leg bent, one leg straight). A group of other cheerleaders...
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts mit aufgestelltem rechten Bein [Reclining half-nude (seen from the right) with the right leg raised (drawn up)] / um 1914 [c. 1914] / roter Farbstift [red crayon; color pencil] [Note:...
Twelve young women pose in front of a painted backdrop of water and a lighthouse. Each girl wears a beach hat and a short halter dress. The girls in the front row each have one leg extended showing their legs with white shoes and stockings up to...
About two dozen men pose with a dry docked boat, which has a small cabin. The boat is high above the dock, and ladders run up to the boat. One man sits on the boat with his leg hanging over the edge. The dock is covered in small pieces of wood and...
Five turbaned men and two harnessed donkeys in front of a building with a metal grid, part of the "Orient" concession along the "Pike" at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. On the building to the left of the grid, a notice...
Portrait of Frederic M. Sackett, Jr. of Louisville, Kentucky, who served as Kentucky Senator from 1925-1930 before being appointed U. S. Ambassador to Germany (1930-1933), posed, crossing one leg over the other. The image has some damage along the...
Pumps; Ship equipment & rigging; Industrial facilities; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Howard Shipyard in Port Fulton (now Jeffersonville), Indiana as seen from a barge at the bank of the Ohio River. A pump and stiff leg crane sit on the barge and a water tube boiler is on a trailer to the left. A stern wheel paddlewheel shaft is...
Volney (or Volna) Fraley, and old man, stands outdoors with one leg on a chair, playing the banjo. He is accompanied by Little Charlie Keeton, a young boy, playing the fiddle. Title supplied by cataloger.
Men; Boys; People with disabilities; Log cabins; Litters; Quilts
A child is carried past a log cabin by two men on a stretcher made of logs and a quilt, as a boy on crutches, wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg, looks on. The children were likely selected for treatment at Stephenson orthopedic...
Boys; Girls; Women; Men; Bonnets; Hats; People with disabilities; Tobacco; Barns
A young girl and a boy, wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg, walk with crutches next to a tobacco barn in the mountains, probably in eastern Kentucky. A woman wearing a bonnet dries out the tobacco leaves as a man wearing a hat...
