Abstract
AbstractOne hundred and ten divers, either sports or professional, have undergone radiological examination of appropriate areas of the skeleton as part of periodic medical review designed to ensure adequate supervision of their health and the prevention of the potentially hazardous effects of decompression. The classification advocated by the Medical Research Council (U.K.) Decompression Sickness Panel has been followed in this report, and a significant number of abnormalities affecting bone and joint have come to light, and are listed in the text. The diver is usually an athletic and adventurous young man who, in some instances, has been engaged in heavy manual work underwater where joint and positional sense may have been modified and rendered him vulnerable to injury to the skeleton and its tendons and ligaments. The interplay of trauma and dysbaric osteonecrosis and their influences on the skeletal changes found in this group of divers forms the subject of this report.
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