The loss of Derrick Rose, sidelined with a meniscus tear, knocks a big hole in this year’s basketball season. And the injury to the Chicago Bulls’ star is only the latest in a series of injuries besetting the sport.
A rotator cuff injury took the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant out in January. The list goes on, and it reaches far deeper than the elite ranks of NBA pros.
Continue reading NBA Misses at Shot at Preventing Basketball Injuries
If you heard this while running, would you go faster?
According to the latest research, music makes you run faster, at least for a short distance. And that’s not all. Music might help you recover from your workout as well. Continue reading Music Makes You Run Faster
As a 3-year-old, Patrick Grange reportedly loved to toss a soccer ball into the air and practice heading it into a goal. Grange specialized in the skill throughout high school, college and a semi-professional career. That career ended when he died from brain damage at age 29.
Could soccer headgear have saved his life? Not if the damage came from heading the ball, a new study suggests. Continue reading Can Soccer Headgear Reduce Brain Injuries?
A treadmill desk can do a lot for your health. But only if you have access to it.
That’s the main lesson I take away from a new study published this week in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Office workers shared treadmill desks for 12 weeks. They each only averaged 45 minutes a day on their shared treadmill desks.
That wasn’t enough to make fat people skinny. So some observers have said this shows that treadmill desks are useless.
So you’ve got this thing that’s supposed to count every step you take. Based on that, it can tell you how many calories you’ve burned, and therefore maybe how much you can eat for dinner.
But what if it’s wrong? What if you’re a lot more active than it says… or a lot less? Mitesh Patel, too, was wondering about the accuracy of pedometers. Continue reading Researchers Test Accuracy of Pedometers
A lot of hockey players accept that their sports includes a few blows to the head. Pros are famous for refusing to wear mouth guards. Now a new study suggests what this punishment may be doing to players’ brains.
This study focused on children, but if you’re a grown-up hockey player, it seems likely some of the same conclusions could apply. Continue reading Concussions in Hockey May Cause Brain Damage
The latest study on exercise has me running scared. It shows that jogging more than 2.5 hours per week might be as bad as not exercising at all.
Yikes! If you count soccer, I’m running at least three hours a week. If you add biking, weight lifting, tennis and hiking I might be killing myself with exercise.
Is this possible? Haven’t we always been told about the endless benefits of movement? Continue reading New Study Warns of Too Much Running
I’ve written a lot about how athletes can avoid injury. So far, I’ve said nothing about those sports where harm is the goal.
Today a new study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine looks at boxing and mixed martial arts and comes to an unsurprising conclusion: The more you fight, the more you hurt your brain.
But the details matter. The researchers found that boxers fare worse than mixed martial arts participants. And they are hoping their work can give fighters some idea of how much combat causes how much damage. Continue reading Martial Arts Linked to Brain Damage
If your preteen wants to play American football, talk to some pros who started that early. Those who got into the sport before age 12 struggle on memory tests, a new study shows.
Pee wee football hits can be so rough they have generated a genre on YouTube, including this collection of clips by “Marco M74”:
Continue reading Pee Wee Football Hits Linked to Memory Loss
The winter sun was shining. A morning of soccer beckoned. But the guys were butting heads.
“This grass is full of gopher holes. Why can’t we play on the turf?”
“Grass is so much better for my knees.”
The debate about artificial turf injuries crops up again and again. And not just in my weekend pickup soccer gang. Last week, a long list of top players reluctantly knuckled under to FIFA’s demand that they play the Women’s World Cup entirely on artificial turf. Continue reading The Truth About Artificial Turf Injuries
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