Laird Harrison

Category: knees

  • Play Sports With Arthritis

    Play Sports With Arthritis

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    “You still play soccer?” a yoga teacher asked me about four years ago. That word “still” has stuck with me ever since. Didn’t I look like someone who should be playing soccer? I was about 49 then, and yes, I’d gotten hurt a few times on the pitch. But the latest study on sports and…

  • How to Play Tennis Without Injury (We Think)

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    So you want to play tennis and not get injured doing it. Sounds simple enough, but research shows that for every thousand hours of the sport, up to 3 injuries occur. You’ll get to a thousand hours in less than four years if you play a few sets each week. Researchers are beginning to figure…

  • How Tennis Players Get Hurt

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    Heat. Fatigue. A strained thigh. Eugenie Bouchard had plenty of reasons to explain her defeat in the fourth-round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament yesterday. And anyone who plays tennis regularly can sympathize. Even though you don’t have the opportunity to crash into another player the way you do in a team sports, you can…

  • How to Prevent Knee Injuries in Soccer

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    It almost seems if you play soccer long enough, you will hurt a knee. A lot of players will be missing from the World Cup this year for that reason: Colombia’s star striker Radamel Facao, midfielder Kevin Strootman of the Netherlands, Ecuador’s Segundo Castillo, Germany’s Holger Badstuber and England’sTheo Walcott,  to name a few.