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NEWS ABOUT: sports injuries

sports injuries stories: 22 news summaries

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Soccer Stars' Fave New Cure: Horse Placenta Massage

It's injected into injured area, then massaged

Nov 18, 09 9:30 PM CST
(Newser) - A treatment featuring horse placenta is becoming all the rage for injured European soccer stars, with two Liverpool players just the latest to seek treatment. The procedure, performed by a Serbian woman, sees the placenta—a leftover of the breeding process—injected into the hurt area, then massaged further into... More »

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Serbia • soccer • placenta • Liverpool • sports injuries • Arsenal • strange stuff • Marijana Kovacevic • Robin van Persie • horse placenta • cures

 NFL Stars Donate 
 Brains to Science 

After death, players' brains will be used to help research into concussion injuries

Sep 15, 09 2:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three NFL players have agreed to donate their brains after they die to help scientists better understand sports brain injuries, HealthDay reports. Matt Birk of the Baltimore Ravens, Lofa Tatupu of the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals' Sean Morey are the first active NFL players to join the brain... More »

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NFL • Arizona Cardinals • brain • Baltimore Ravens • concussions • Seattle Seahawks • sports injuries • Lofa Tatupu • chronic traumatic encephalopathy • football player • Matt Birk • Sean Morey

(Newser) - Alden Manning pitched his heart out last season, hurling fastballs until his arm was so sore he needed Tommy John surgery. Problem is, Alden was only 14—and he's not alone. More teenage pitchers are suffering from serious arm injuries as the best of them are asked to pitch more... More »

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Tommy John Surgery • pitcher • Little League World Series • Little League • sports injuries

 How to Beat 
 Bad Ankles 

Ankle injuries can impair one's balance long after they heal

Jul 8, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - People who’ve sprained an ankle are likely to sprain it again, writes Gretchen Reynolds for the New York Times, but there may be a "supremely low-tech" fix: balance training. An ankle sprain interferes with the neural receptors in the ligaments that transmit balance information to the brain.... More »

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health • injury • physical therapy • sports injuries • balance • physical education

 Yao Out for Season, 
 Maybe For Good 

Re-fractured foot means Rockets center may miss all of next season, if not more

Jun 29, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The broken left foot that knocked center Yao Ming out of the recently concluded NBA playoffs could be career-ending, sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports. Pins were inserted a year ago after one of the Houston Rockets star's many injuries, and the foot re-fractured during the playoffs and hasn’... More »

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basketball • Yao Ming • Houston Rockets • sports injuries • broken bone

 Wii Sports 
 Cause Real 
 Injuries 

Treat it like real exercise: docs

Jun 17, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nintendo Wii players may find themselves saddled with the same sprains and fractures that haunt athletes, often because they don't treat the virtual games like real sports, doctors tell the Washington Times. Sprains are the most common injury because Wii Sports don't provide the same resistance that actual tennis, bowling,... More »

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Nintendo Wii • exercise • sports injuries • brain injuries • Wii Fit • Wii

OPINION

 Athletes Put Lives on the Line 


Jan 28, 09 3:25 PM CST
(Newser) - When Willis McGahee was wheeled off the field during the AFC championship game, “it was impossible not to fear the worst,” writes Wendy MacLeod in the Washington Post. And when she tried to find his status online, she turned up a YouTube video entitled, “McGahee Gets... More »

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NFL • football • concussions • sports injuries • brain injuries • gladiators • head injuries • Willis McGahee

Brutal Hits May Force
NFL Ump Padding

Officials closest to the action suffer painful collisions with players

Nov 2, 08 6:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Imagine side-stepping Mack trucks once a week while reading their license plates and risking brutal, career-ending collisions. Now you know how an NFL umpire feels, the Los Angeles Times reports. On-field injuries may be uncommon, but they do occur, and the NFL is contemplating protective gear. “I know I... More »

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NFL • football • umpire • sports injuries

 Injured Oden Out Up to 4 Weeks 

New injury fells Trail Blazers center minutes into his delayed NBA debut

Oct 30, 08 3:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Greg Oden's NBA debut last night lasted just 13 minutes, the Oregonian reports. The Trail Blazers center and top 2007 draft pick—who sat out all last season with a knee injury—injured his foot in the first quarter of the team's 96-76 loss to the Lakers. Oden, still without... More »

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NBA • Los Angeles Lakers • basketball • Portland Trail Blazers • Greg Oden • injury • sports injuries

 Palin's Carpet 
 Burns Blues Goalie 

St. Louis slumps to 4-0 loss after Palin's puck drop carpet trips up Legace

Oct 25, 08 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - St. Louis Blues goalie Manny Legace is sitting out tonight's game with a hip injury after a brush with politics, the AP reports. The team rolled a carpet out onto the ice for Sarah Palin to drop a ceremonial puck before last night's Kings game and Legace, the first player... More »

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NHL • St. Louis Blues • Los Angeles Kings • sports injuries • Manny Legace • Sarah Palin

 Brady Out for 
 Season With Torn ACL 

Star hurler's knee buckles in 17-10 victory over Kansas City

Sep 7, 08 7:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patriots QB Tom Brady is likely out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. Coach Bill Belichick said he had no news on Brady's knee, which buckled when Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard struck it in today's 17-10 Patriots victory—but one team source told Yahoo! Sports,... More »

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NFL • New England Patriots • Tom Brady • sports injuries • knee injury

 Djokovic Slams Roddick, 
—On and Off Court 

Players lob choice words back and forth as Djokovic moves on to semis

Sep 5, 08 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick had two competitions going on last night: the quarterfinal match of the US Open, and a volley of complaints and accusations that should not overly surprise followers of the Serbian No. 3. After taking Roddick down 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), Djokovic lashed out at... More »

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Roger Federer • tennis • Andy Roddick • injury • Novak Djokovic • US Open Tennis • sports injuries

Give Me an
O! U! C! H!

Cheerleading proves more dangerous
than all other girls' sports combined

Aug 12, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cheerleading accounts for more catastrophic injuries than every other girls’ sport combined, LiveScience reports. Of the 103 fatal, debilitating, or serious injuries female high school athletes incurred between 1982 and 2007, 67 occurred while cheerleading. Participants in the next-most-dangerous activity, gymnastics, sustained just nine such injuries. The proportions for college... More »

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high school • high school sports • sports injuries • cheerleading

OPINION

 Curt Schilling:
 A Very Human
 Superman 

Love him or hate him, departing ace was a compelling figure

Jun 22, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Plenty of fans adore Curt Schilling, plenty more harbor less admiring thoughts about him, and Kevin van Valkenburg, writing in the Baltimore Sun, feels a little bit of both. As the Red Sox pitcher faces a season-ending surgery, a look back at his career shows a gifted athlete with a... More »

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MLB • Boston Red Sox • Curt Schilling • Arizona Diamondbacks • pitcher • sports injuries • baseball

China's Quest for Glory Pushing Athletes Past Limits

Injured athletes pressured to keep training

Jun 20, 08 2:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is going all-out in a sometimes destructive push to top the medal table at the Beijing Olympics, the New York Times reports. Athletes are risking their health by training while injured, and potential medal-winners are being pressed out of retirement. Olympic hopefuls are well aware that victory will bring... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • Hu Jintao • sports injuries • Chinese athletes

 Danica's Car Hits Crew Member 

Mechanic has concussion after accident in pit row

May 10, 08 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Danica Patrick, racing's rising star, clipped a crew member yesterday during practice for the Indianapolis 500. Patrick—who became the first woman to win an Indy Car race last month—struck the 63-year-old mechanic in pit row with both left tires and sent him flying through air, the Indianapolis Star... More »

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Indianapolis 500 • Indy Racing • auto racing • sports injuries • Danica Patrick

Dallas Loses Dirk, Game
in Hellish Third Quarter

Nowitzki out two weeks, 6-7 games as Mavericks gaze into the abyss

Mar 23, 08 9:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a nightmarish third quarter, the Mavericks allowed a game-changing 19-0 run by their archrivals and saw their star forward, Dirk Nowitzki, sustain a lower leg injury on a nasty spill. The sweet-shooting Bavarian is likely to miss a minimum of 6-7 games, reports the Dallas Morning News, and... More »

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NBA • basketball • Dallas Mavericks • San Antonio Spurs • Dirk Nowitzki • Jason Kidd • sports injuries

Major Knee Injuries Soar for Child Athletes

Increasingly arduous world of kid sports taking toll

Feb 18, 08 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - The number of serious knee injuries that doctors once saw only in adults is skyrocketing among children as kid sports become increasingly demanding, reports the New York Times. Injuries such as a torn ACL—the major ligament that stabilizes the knee—require surgery that poses particular risks to children who... More »

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sports • children • soccer • sports injuries • torn ACL • knee • knee injury • ligament

Everett Leaves Hospital, Thanks Buffalo Fans

'It’s been special to me,' injured Bills tight end tells crowd on video

Nov 19, 07 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Buffalo tight end Kevin Everett left the hospital last week and thanked his team and its fans for their support in a video message that played before last night's game. "Just letting you guys know it’s been special to me and I just want to say, come on... More »

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NFL • Buffalo Bills • football • Kevin Everett • sports injuries

Injury Decks Becks for
Most of Season

Brit superstar out
for six weeks
after knee sprain

Aug 31, 07 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - LA Galaxy superstar David Beckham will likely miss most of his widely anticipated American soccer debut season after spraining his right knee in a match on Wednesday. Beckham went down on a tackle by Pachuca's Fernando Salazar during a SuperLiga title match. Trainers say he'll be out at least until... More »

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David Beckham • Los Angeles Galaxy • Major League Soccer • SuperLiga • Pachuca • Fernando Salazar • British National Soccer Team • sports injuries

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