…except the hip bone’s labrum has been torn and now requires surgery. Which is happening more than ever before. Due to training methods or just better identification/diagnostics? Answer: YES.
it’s not like workouts have changed all of a sudden; it doesn’t explain it,” said Christopher Powers, an associate professor of biokinesiology at the University of Southern California. “People and doctors are just more aware of it diagnostically. We’ve always had hip problems; now we are just finding it better.”
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As magnetic imaging has become more sophisticated, doctors have gained the ability to see inside the hip and identify labral tears. We are doing a much better job at imaging the injuries, and we are also seeing athletes with bigger bodies that are working harder on strength and conditioning, and the bigger, stronger muscles are allowing athletes to torque faster and more pressure is being put on the hip,” said Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
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They started worrying much more about knees; they now do special training to protect the knee. And one belief is that this is why we have more of these injuries because the strength is putting more pressure on the hips,” said Dr. Andreas H. Gomoll, an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Got that?
Seems that Wallace Matthews is channeling some of what I have been saying – hell, the reason why I named this blog the way I did in the first place!– around here for quite some time.
If baseball is so popular in this town and Yankees and Mets games truly are must-see events, as both clubs insisted throughout the offseason, why aren’t there 10,000 people milling around outside their ballparks every game night, trying to buy up every last ticket in the house, and the rest going home empty-handed and disappointed?
One of the reasons, of course, is simple and self-evident. It’s the economy, stupid.
Well, DUH!
If you want to read a pretty darned good take down of Matthews’ entire article, Jay at FackYouk has it.
From this morning with Mully and Hanley (link to mp3)
While I do agree with Bill Plaschke’s contempt of the Dodgers’ ownership’s apparently tacit approval of all things Manny, I am not sure I can agree with this one:
If you vote for Manny Ramirez, you are endorsing his cheating. And if Ramirez does somehow become one of the top three vote-getters, then Selig needs to use his “best interest” clause and revoke his candidacy.
In case you haven’t totally understood me, I am in favor of fan voting and mandatory representation from every team IF the game is an exhibition, as it used to be. {Who cares if it ends in a tie if it’s an exhibition anyways?} Or, come up with a new hybrid selection process (equal weighting the vote of the fans/players/managers) and selecte the best 32 players and play to win the game at all costs. And if you were wondering what Bud’s stance is on fan voting (which I completely support in the selection of a roster for an exhibition game only):
“The fans vote on the team, it’s not my place to take the game away from them”
Simply, find a better way to determine who gets HFA in the World Series, other than the ASG. Such as team with the best record with the tiebreaker being something like interleague record. Bud would probably like that since interleague is another of his babies. That would have its own issues with some teams getting a much more favorable interleague schedule, but I’m not worried about the particulars right now.
I just want the “Merriman” rule in place and the “this time it counts” idea revoked.
