UPDATE:
Triple Full – Jade Barbosa’s Doctor: “We’re Going to Think Positive, But Only Time Will Tell.”
UPDATE:
I asked Dr. Keith Russell of the University of Saskatchewan his opinion on the original study that started the media furor:
… the study was relatively small sample (its not clear from the abstract, but it looks like 12/125 children were gymnasts who had images taken because they presented with wrist problems) from a single hospital in the USA. This in not a “scientific” research study. One cannot imply any trends from this kind of study, one cannot imply any increase in numbers or increase in kinds of injuries. It is a type of study often done in medicine – a case-series study.
I am not saying it is not an important study. …
read the rest of Keith’s response in the COMMENTS on this post
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From a post of mine last November:
… In the report to be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, researchers noted that the gymnasts studied showed a “broad constellation of recent injuries†to their wrists and knuckles and evidence of early necrosis, or “deathâ€, of bones.
Using magnetic resonance imaging and other scans, the researchers studied the wrists and hands of 125 child gymnasts …
Young gymnasts risking a life of pain in quest for perfection – Times Online
Necrosis?
I don’t believe that for a second.
Gymnastics Coaching – another alarmist gymnastics injury post
Perhaps I was wrong.
Globoesporte is reporting that doctors from the US and Brazil have finished meeting and they all agree that Jade Barbosa’s necrotic injury to her capitate bone cannot be treated. …
All Gymnastics, All the time – It’s Official: Jade’s Injury cannot be Treated
She’s still training. But this may end Jade’s career.
Kayla notes that Steliana Nistor can “can barely lift a cup of water to my mouth”. She’s been diagnosed with necrosis, as well.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 