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Old 10-31-2003, 10:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Are Sports Injuries Becoming More Prevalent?

Today I see Ray Allen is to have surgery, Elton Brand is out 4-6 weeks and Allen Iverson is banged up. These guys are TWO games into the season! And this is by no means limited to professional basketball.

Mick Vick and Dan Reeves are at odds on when he should return. Herm Edwards got ripped for not starting Chad Pennington if he was able to play. My hometown Cleveland Browns have three out of five starting offensive linemen sitting on the pine - not to mention several of their backups being hurt as well.

Are injuries more and more prevalant? Coach Larry Brown thinks so, and blames the emphasis on weightlifting for the rise in injuries. "Philadelphia’s Larry Brown and some other NBA coaches blame the mounting injuries on weightlifting. They say players have become so bulky that they’re more prone to muscle tears and strains."

If injuries are more prevalent, why?

Are 'sport specialists' and 'physical trainers' part of the problem? I mean, you never heard of Dr. J sitting out a game while his anterior posterior crucial bilateral ligament was looked at, did you? Of course not, he just played. I'm not talking about severe injuries, those occurred in the past as much as they do today. But what about some of this other stuff?

Is it because players are more pampered than ever before?
Is it because players are less tough or unwilling to "gut it out"? (Kobe Bryant recently suggested Shaq coulda played a lot more last year had he had some heart.)
Is a factor like the extra emphasis on weightlifting to blame?
Are 'sports specialists' and 'team physicians' to blame for being ultra-conservative with a two hundred million dollar athlete?
Has the science of health evolved so much that they can pinpoint minute injuries and sit players for fear that the injury may worsen?

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Lets hear your thoughts. My head hurts now. Perhaps I should take some time off work, and see a half-dozen specialists.

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Old 10-31-2003, 06:48 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I think its about the money, players know if they come back after an injury too quick they can make it a lot more worse and shorten their careers (ie not earn as much money).

Having said that, key players should just play. Vick is bitching about his leg, when he had 16 weeks off (Doctors said 6-10). Now think to last season and how McNair and McNabb both played through injury in crucial games.
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Old 10-31-2003, 07:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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yep, I noticed this as well. Seems like my fantasy teams in all the sports are being decimated by injuries like never before. I also think its about the money as usual. Though you can't really blame the athletes or the teams. They've seen what happens when some athletes have tried to play through the injuries and gotten hurt even worse. Teams are just "protecting their investment" and the players are protecting their worth.
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Old 10-31-2003, 08:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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add kerry kittles to that list.
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Old 10-31-2003, 08:25 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Are sports injuries becoming more prevalent? No. If anything injuries have DECREASED. The difference is that the injuries are being treated now.

Don't believe me? Watch NFL games from the 50's and 60's. Cornerbacks would let Wide Receivers catch the ball, just so they could nail them to knock the ball loose. That doesn't count the clotheslines, the facemasks, and all the penalties the refs didn't even call. You look at the hands of linemen and they don't look even close to natural. A trainer doesn't even look at them, they just tape them up and send the lineman back out.
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Old 10-31-2003, 09:14 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Are sports injuries becoming more prevalent? No. If anything injuries have DECREASED. The difference is that the injuries are being treated now.

Don't believe me? Watch NFL games from the 50's and 60's. Cornerbacks would let Wide Receivers catch the ball, just so they could nail them to knock the ball loose. That doesn't count the clotheslines, the facemasks, and all the penalties the refs didn't even call. You look at the hands of linemen and they don't look even close to natural. A trainer doesn't even look at them, they just tape them up and send the lineman back out.
So you think that the number of injuries are the same, it's just that we are more likley to treat them? This could be true - I'm not sure I fully understand what you are getting at.
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Old 10-31-2003, 09:17 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Teams are just "protecting their investment" and the players are protecting their worth.
This is a legitimate point. As you make more of an investment as a team, you may be more conservative about playing dinged up players.
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Old 10-31-2003, 10:10 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Gov, my point: Equipment has become safer, rules in almost every sport have been added to protect players (especially football), and the addition of refs actually calling penalties mean that sports were not even close to as rough as they were in the past.

As a direct result there were more injuries. However, many players just didn't have their injuries looked at. If they were just trying to tough it out, or because the medical science was not there, fact is, many things just weren't treated.

Another thing I forgot to mention, is the actual size of athletes now-a-days. In case no one has noticed, they're friggin huge now.
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