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Category: sport medicine
treating & preventing Gymnastics hand rips
Concussion – the film
Have you seen Will Smith as Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian forensic pathologist who fights against efforts by the National Football League to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players?
Click PLAY or watch a trailer on YouTube.
Anyone who boxes or plays football should know the risks by now. I’m more concerned for coaches and athletes in sports who assume they are at low risk of micro-trauma injury to the brain. Trampoline? Artistic Gymnasts?
related – League of Denial
stupid Karolyi training
The most severe, the most stupid Gymnastics training was in the 1980s. Here’s a case study. Other coaches tried to emulate.
Retton has undergone 19 surgeries, including having both hips replaced, partially because of all the pounding as a gymnast. She needs back and shoulder surgery, which won’t be scheduled until after the Rio Games.
“When I say we did 60 to 70 vaults a day, we did — and that was landing on that hard surface,” Retton said. …
Click PLAY or watch part of that interview on Facebook.
Mary Lou Retton: Ignore your critics, do what you love
(via GymCastic)
Taylor Lindsay-Noel audiocast
Canadian gymnast Taylor Lindsay-Noel was paralyzed in 2008 training a toe-on double front dismount from Bars. No pit. No spot.
She’s very eloquent. Very active online.
And now she’s launched a podcast called Tea Time with Tay.
In her first podcast Taylor details the day of her life-changing accident.
Here’s her website.
Kuksenkov tests positive for Meldonium
Amanda Turner:
New national champion Nikolai Kuksenkov has withdrawn from the Russian men’s championships in Penza after it was revealed he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium. …
According to Russian coach and spokeswoman Valentina Rodionenko, Kuksenkov’s test was conducted two weeks ago but the results were only just discovered. …
I can say that on the Russian national team in gymnastics we stopped using the drug even in August 2015! Then the representatives of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency consulted with our doctors, and then withdrew all the supplies of Mildronate from our first-aid kits. …
new ACL procedure
This looks encouraging.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
details – Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair (BEAR) Clinical Trial
Mary-Anne Monckton just ruptured her ACL. 😦
Perhaps this new procedure could be an option.
Kate Foster – Good Morning America
Kate Foster lost her leg to a leukemia-related infection when she was 12, but she didn’t let that stop her from becoming a competitive gymnast.
“I’ve never really found anything that I’ve loved more,” Foster, now 16, told ABC News. …
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
via Gymternet Clan
Aly Raisman Talks Code of Points & Injuries
I hope FIG WTC listens to their Olympic Champion. She’s right.
Rules should be set with respect to the health and safety of competitors.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
The FIG Medical Commission should have more input to WTC. 😦
(via Inside Gymnastics)
Sam eats 5 times a day
Interesting interviews.
I eat five times a day, smaller meals, balancing my protein to carbs. Spacing my diet with what I have to do for one day that might be a lot of routines. I’ll eat more for that morning. It’s very detailed. …
Catching up with USA gymnasts Sam Mikulak, Donnell Whittenburg
I’m watching them compete on the AT&T American Cup – International Feed. Sam’s not quite back 100% from his Achilles injury.
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