Hoenig L J
University of Miami School of Medicine, FL, USA.
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 1997 Feb;26(4):684-8. doi: 10.1016/s0049-0172(97)80004-2.
This study describes in modern medical terms a traumatic hip injury suffered by the Biblical patriarch Jacob approximately 3,500 years ago. The case history is based on the original Hebrew text found in the Bible book of Genesis (Chapter 32:25-33) as interpreted by traditional Jewish commentaries on the Bible. Jacob sustained a hip injury in hand-to-hand combat with an adversary or through an intense physiological reaction to a prophetic vision of such a battle. He appears to have sustained neurological injury to his sciatic nerve as well as musculoskeletal damage to his hip. These injuries caused a temporary limping gait. Jacob probably sustained a neurapraxia of the sciatic nerve. The differential diagnosis of his musculoskeletal hip injury includes hip dislocation, fracture, soft tissue trauma, and articular pathology.
本研究用现代医学术语描述了大约3500年前圣经先祖雅各布所遭受的髋部创伤。病例史基于在《创世纪》圣经书卷（第32章：25 - 33节）中发现的原始希伯来文本，并由传统犹太教对圣经的注释所诠释。雅各布在与对手的近身搏斗中或因对一场战斗的预言性幻象产生强烈生理反应而导致髋部受伤。他似乎坐骨神经遭受了神经损伤，髋部也有肌肉骨骼损伤。这些损伤导致了暂时的跛行步态。雅各布很可能遭受了坐骨神经失用症。他髋部肌肉骨骼损伤的鉴别诊断包括髋关节脱位、骨折、软组织创伤和关节病变。
