I feel that the reviews could have had more detail to them and also should have included information regarding how spinal cord injuries relate back to our A&P class. It seems you have interest in this subject so maybe just put a little more information in your own words into these reviews.

Your enthusiasm shows through your reviews. To make your review complete I would like to see more on how your websites relate back to A&P class.

I would like to see more of your own writing on how this topic relates to the A&P class. Also, I find it unclear as to the “why” the website being posted.
The best part of the review is that I can tell you are really intrigued by this topic.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?d...view&indexed=google
PUBMED GOES INTO DETAIL ON SPINAL CORD INJURIES
Pubmed, a website service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, has articles and studies by doctors and health care professionals. Just about any subject in the medical field is covered so the user can easily find their topic. 448 studies and articles were found on my spinal cord injuries in sports topic. Many related links also have many studies and articles.
Pubmed covers cervical spinal cord injuries in detail like this study (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?D...nel.Pubmed_RVDocSum) which talks about flexion of the head placing the cervical spine into a straight line and preventing the neck muscles from assisting in force absorption. This is the primary cause of cervical fracture, dislocation, and quadriplegia. Ofcourse, the most serious of these injuries involves a transverse myelopathy of the spinal cord resulting in loss of spinal function below the level of the legion.
Bests and worsts of Pubmed: Very interesting studies and statistics relating sports and spinal cord injuries. I like the detailed explanations on the subjects covered. I did feel a little overwelmed. This website was huge. Maybe a little too huge.
This website review has been a presentation of Sam Bigler.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburgh...ports/s_531653.html
MACK STRONG ENDS FOOTBALL CAREER WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY
A Pittsburgh area newspaper picked up an associated press story on Mack Strong, a longtime Seattle Seahawks fullback who suffered a herniated disk. The injury presented itself in Pittsburgh during a loss to the Steelers. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review posted it on their website which covers local, national, & world news.
The website article covers Strong’s herniated disk in his neck which is pinching his spinal cord. He felt tingling in his left arm the morning before the game, but he just went in and played. Then, after a routine block, he had to come out. The team reported it was a stinger, a nerve sensation from his neck, but it was far more serious than that. A spine specialist told him he wouldn’t have to have surgery if he stopped playing immediately.
Bests and worsts about the website:I liked this article because it talks about a player with a spinal cord injury that can actually live a normal life provided, ofcourse, he stops playing professional football. I also liked the personal spin on how he came in to the league undrafted and lasted 15 years despite his ailing neck stingers. I wish they would’ve put a link to a spinal cord injuries website, but they didn’t. And besides mentioning Kevin Everett’s life-threatening spinal cord injury they didn’t go into more detail about spinal cord injuries in football.
This has been a website review by Sam Bigler

Choose topic: 10 points
Find four websites: 15 points
Peer reviews: 10 points

Sam, I think you might have included a bit more about why each website is being posted, even if it is obvious.."this is a news article intended to describe an event"...etc....although then we often get into why they are describing this event...to sell newspapers?

I agree with your peers that the CDC website is the only one that really addresses some of the a and p involved. The two newspaper articles are interesting, but I wonder if there's not something in the news that tells more about what actually happened to these football players.

I wouldn't review the PubMed website that is just an abstract of a scientific article...it doesn't include much info there and it would be better to have the article, but it might be very technical.

Good luck,
LF

1st website: I’m not sure that I liked this website for spinal cord injuries because it didn’t have very many related links although there were some to the right which was hard to find. It was good for topics of prevention which is a very useful tool especially for someone such as I who is very active in various sports.
2nd website: I liked reading the article because it made me really appreciate that my body still functions very well, and makes me want to be more careful. I liked that it gave lots of info for the elderly, but I didn’t find that much info specifically about SCI.
3rd website: I liked that there is a contact us section which gives you info for CDC, the safety tips and the publications link. I didn’t like some of the links because often they go to a set of various other links which was annoying somewhat.
4th website: I didn’t like that it didn’t give much info about SCI, but the statistics were interesting to see and I also liked reading the story about the football player.

NCBI

I found this article to be very interesting as far as preventive measures taken to help athletes.

I was looking for more information and did not find anything on how spinal injuries happen. This website lacked being able to so any research on the topic.

Pittsburgh

This was a great article about Mack Strong and great for other athletes injured in the same way as Mack to read to prevent staying in the sport and risking it all.

This website does not give information on helping athletes with spinal cord injuries.
Readers are curious how doctors help, about symptoms and prevention. There was no other information other than this great article to read and about other athletes.

CDC Gov.

This is more like it; this article was full of information on prevention, safety tips to avoid a spinal injury and information informing the public what could happen during child maltreatment or driving unsafe.

I did not find anything worse about this website.

ESPN

This website gave a great article about Kevin Everett it was very informative. It gave information on what the doctor had to do to reconstruct Kevin Spine; it is catastrophic indeed nothing more could be done to repair all the damage.

I did not see any more information on spinal cord injuries. What is being done to help these athletes?

NCBI
This website was a little confusing at first as I was searching through the tabs at the top and found unrelated information. I finally found the related links to the right. The information was very brief. I can’t say that if I were looking up spinal cord injuries that I would pick this site.

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
This was a good article about Seattle Seahawks fullback, Mack Strong. It just makes you realize how many other athletes in contact sports could suffer severe injury and never be able to function the same again. I am glad that he is speaking out about it to show others maybe not to play through the pain or sensations they feel because they could be risking further injury.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
The two best things about this website are the fact sheet and the great prevention tips. It was kind of a boring website altogether.

ESPN
It seems that this story of SCI is becoming more and more common. It is very scary to think one minute this guy, Kevin Everett was just enjoying the game and in the next moment his life changed.

Sports.ESPN – Kevin Everett’s had a spinal cord injury September 2007. The website doesn’t have any information regarding spinal cord injuries, just his injury. There is not a lot to this website. It did however explain that he had a break between the 3rd & 4th vertebrae and how what they were able to do to stabilize his spine.

CDC.gov - This website gives information regarding injury prevention & control re: spinal cord injuries. It has detailed information regarding preventing SCI, sport’s related SCI and tips to prevent those. It also gives detailed information for the elderly and ways to help prevent falls that are the leading cause of SCI for people over 65 years old. It seems like good information about prevention but no information about SCI and the links give limited information.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – An article regarding Seattle Seahawks football player having to retire because of a herniated disk in his neck pinching his spinal cord. The only information it gives from a doctor is that his injury will not heal without surgery unless he stops playing football. It’s a good article regarding this particular football player but no information re spinal cord injuries.

NCBI website – There is only information regarding what looks like, statistics of sports related spinal cord injuries. I was hoping for more information in detail regarding types of spinal cord injuries, etc.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?d...view&indexed=google
This is a webite called NCBI which is a public service by the National Library of Medicine. It talks about spinal cord sports injuries and prevention.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburgh...ports/s_531653.html
This is an article in a Pittsburgh newspaper about a football player who recently retired because of a spinal cord injury. He can still function normally, but any more trauma would severely inhibit him.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/sciprevention.htm
This website is from the National Center for Injury Prevention & Control. It gives helpful tips on how to prevent spinal cord injuries in sports.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012739
This is an ESPN story about the latest spinal cord injury in the NFL and the reaction of other players who have had the same injury.

I picked spinal cord injuries in sports becuase I play a lot of sports and thought this is a good topic that links A & P to sports.