| Top 10 Weird Sports Injuries | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:03:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | The torn ACL, high-ankle sprain and even the dreaded "upper-body injury," are unfortunately everyday occurrences in the high speed, hard-hitting world of professional sports. They are the expected results of the risks athletes take while making millions of dollars to ply their trades. Other injuries are not so expected, like the time when former NHL goalie Glenn Healy cut his catching hand while cleaning his bagpipes, or Irish soccer star Robbie Keane ruptured knee cartilage while reaching for his TV remote or Colorado Rockies star rookie Clint Barmes broke his collarbone while trying to lug deer meat up a flight of stairs. The stars can play this game too. John Smoltz once scalded himself while ironing a shirt he was wearing, Wade Boggs fell over while putting on a cowboy boot and missed a week of action and Jeff Kent broke his wrist while washing his car.... | |
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| | | Players use babies as 'repair kits' | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:02:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | London - Premiership footballers are storing stem cells from their newborn babies to use in case of their own career-threatening sports injuries, according to a report. They are freezing cells taken from the umbilical-cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems. Some professional footballers have frozen their children's stem cells with Liverpool-based CryoGenesis International (CGI) and London-based Smart Cells. One footballer, who declined to be named, explained: "We decided to store our baby's stem cells for possible future therapeutic reasons, both for our children and possibly for myself." .... | |
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| | | AFL takes a top mark for sports injuries, but don't give it away | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 8:56:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | AUSTRALIAN football causes more injuries than any other sport - but that's no reason to hang up your boots, says the AFL's best player, Chris Judd. Judd, who plays with the West Coast Eagles, had two shoulder reconstructions before he reached elite AFL level, and recently returned from a hamstring injury. But the benefits of playing far outweighed the risks, he said yesterday at the launch of a report on sporting injuries. "I've been pretty lucky since I started playing AFL footy, but as a junior I had a few problems," he said. "The benefits of playing AFL, especially for young kids at a community level, certainly far outweigh the negatives. But there are a few older blokes running around who are not that well-conditioned, and I guess they should be aware of the risks." The report, by sports medicine expert Peter Larkins, is based on figures from general practices, public hospitals and health professionals around the nation.... | |
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