Sports Injuries

                   

Study Shows Cheerleading Injuries On The Rise

kdka.com     19 hrs ago   1 related          

When it comes to sports injuries this time of year, a lot of people think of football players. But it's actually a different group -- on the sidelines -- seeing a rise in injuries. "[Cheerleaders] are usually competing in a two...                    

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Fall Back Into Team Sports

newswise.com     Aug 19, 2008   1 related          

Keywords BACK TO SCHOOL, FOOTBALL, FALL SPORTS, CHEERLEADING, BASKETBALL, KIDS SPORTS SAFETY Description A few strategies can keep young athletes injury-free this fall Public Service Announcement from the American Academy of...                    

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Should get physician's opinion for shoulder

guampdn.com     Aug 19, 2008          

Editor's note: This biweekly column is about chiropractic and the treatment of minor sports injuries. I suffered a shoulder separation last year while playing rugby. I went to my doctor and they told me that I sprained my...                    

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Hearing Loss, Lack Of Sleep Impair Back-To-School Health

medicalnewstoday.com     Aug 19, 2008          

As the new school year approaches, many parents are preparing their children by buying school supplies, new clothes, and organizing fall sporting events. But in order to help kids get a healthy head start to the school year,...                    

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time.com: A Southern Illinois cheerleader signals to the crowd that she is okay after taking a fall during a routine. time.com

Cheerleading's Risky Lack of Rules

time.com     Aug 18, 2008   3 related          

Cheerleading is by far the most perilous sport for female athletes in high school and college, accounting for as much as two-thirds of severe school-sports injuries over the past 25 years, according to a new report. New data...                    

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Exercises tackle strain from heavy keyboard use

chron.com     Aug 18, 2008          

You reach a certain age and even typing on a keyboard feels like a contact sport. Blame our discs, those essential little cushions that separate the vertebrae in the spine. They're 85 percent water and dry out as we age, making...                    

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Adult Stem Cell Treatment Ready for Human Testing?

truthout.org     Aug 18, 2008   9 related          

Doctors might soon be able to regrow injured muscles, tendons and bones without invasive surgery, simply by injecting a person's own stem cells into the site of an injury. Veterinarians are already doing it with injured horses,...                    

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Young bodies under pressure

baltimoresun.com     Aug 17, 2008          

Let's take a break from counting Michael Phelps medals at the Summer Olympics, shall we? Of the 596 athletes representing the U.S. this month in Beijing, 41 were teenagers. After years of endless practice, practice and more...                    

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Playing Hurt (review of book on girls' sports injuries)

freerepublic.com     Aug 17, 2008   1 related          

Sokolove cites studies showing that young women who play soccer, basketball and volleyball suffer tears to the anterior cruciate ligament (or A.C.L., a flexible, rectangular-shaped band of tissue that stabilizes the knee joint)...                    

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What's With That Tape Athletes Are Using?

11alive.com     Aug 16, 2008          

Walsh's shoulder has been taped with what is called Kineso tape. "This would be the kind of tape I would do for somebody, let's say, that's having tennis elbow," said physical therapist Michelle Miller. A Japanese chiropractor...                    

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