I am an avid body builder and I am always pushing my body to its limits in the gym in order to make certain areas of my body grow to achieve an end goal. My knee has been slowing me down for a while now, and it has been an ongoing struggle to deal with. A couple months back, I was doing a movement in the gym to help my legs grow, called the squat. I was trying to squat two hundred and twenty-five pounds for about six reps. I did not know that I hurt myself until the next day. But it turns out I tore my lateral collateral ligament or LCL. The LCL is the ligament to the outer side of the knee which connects your femur to your fibula. This problem can have a couple different ways to see exactly what is happening with my knee. The main thing I see happening, is a constant miss grove when doing certain movements in the gym or a very slight limp after a vigorous day of being on my feet or working out. Symptoms for the tear in my left knee include minor pains randomly, and sometimes very severe throbbing pains if I did something to aggravate it. Also, just a constant worry of accidentally hurting myself more so than I already am. So I am …show more content…
One event is not taking the right precautions before going into big leg workouts like I was always doing. To do what I was doing in the gym, a person would need to regularly warm up properly and stretch to avoid big injuries. I would have needed a better all-around setup going into this squat to make it better. Another condition is that I often feel the need to test my strength which in my area of body building, it is not beneficial to lift a lot of weight. For other problems that could have been present during the occurrence of the central problem, I feel as though I was not in the right state of mind to be testing my strength like I was. Far too often people forget how much being in the gym is just as much mental as it is
A September 7 elbow fracture during the Double-A playoffs will cause minor league second baseman Ozzie Albies to miss the remainder of the playoff season with his team, the Mississippi Braves. The 19-year-old, who was expected to be one of the stars of the playoffs, had split his time this year between the Mississippi Braves and the franchise's Triple-A team, the Gwinnett Braves. Although Albies' injury will require surgery, he should be able to return to playing baseball by January.
Can baseball players return to equal or higher levels of play after Ulnar Collateral Ligament reconstructive surgery and should restrictions be set for players who have had the surgery?
Breaking News! Breaking News! During the second preseason game Green Bay Packers WR Jordy Nelson tore his anterior cruciate ligament ACL. While he was actively running his routes during the game the ball was thrown his way as he planted his foot - the pop was heard like a gunshot as his knee pulled one way and the rest of his leg the other. We got more Packers injuries as we now hear that Sam Shields Packers CB has a bad concussion and is likely out for the season. Sam was tackling a player and instead of hitting the ground normally he hit his head on the ground and that caused his brain to shake inside his skull.
Ulnar collateral ligament injury is a type of elbow injury that develops from repeated overhand throwing movements (overuse). This motion places a lot of stress on the two strong bands of tissue (ligaments) that hold your elbow joint in place. The ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is a main ligament located on the inside of your elbow. Over time, repetitive overhand throwing can damage the UCL.
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Imaging tests will be done to check whether there is damage to blood vessels or nerves around your knee. This may include a test that involves injecting a special dye into your blood vessels and looking at the dye through a CT scan (angiogram). An MRI or Doppler ultrasound could also be done.
Prior to this injury I had sports that I enjoyed and more importantly, kept me in shape. Its really discouraging at the age of 16 to hear that there is a high possibility you may never be able to do what you love again. It has been like a big game of chutes and ladders where the chutes represent, the times of surgery and pain and having to work hard and the ladders represent me getting back on my feet and climbing all the up to reach my goal . Chutes and ladders is such a tedious game involving a lot of ups and downs which correlates highly with how knee surgery
First and foremost, your knee has four ligaments. The ligaments line up your bones and help control the way you move. It prevents the shins from moving too far forward. ACL injuries sometimes requires surgery.
Recovering from a serious knee injury and returning to pre-injury levels can be a difficult task to overcome, but it has been proven possible to do this. Improper injury protocols and the injuries themselves are two of the largest factors in professional athletes not having elongated and successful careers. ACL, MCL, PCL, LCL, and Patellar Tendonitis are the most common knee injuries in which athletes sustain. Sustaining a knee injury at the highest and most competitive levels of basketball can make the injury and recovery process much more difficult and stressful, however. Depending on the injury, it can take a very extended amount of time for the knee to return back to its normal functioning, especially since damaging one part of the knee does not come without other injuries. A permanent and career ending injury may be the result if the proper percussions are not taken throughout the recovery process.
With an ever increasing number of people becoming involved with athletic activities, there is an increasing number of injuries occurring which can be devastating for the individual. Most of the injuries that affect athletes occur in one of four structures in the human body: bones, muscles, tendons, or ligaments. Because ligaments attach bone to bone and play a major part in providing stability for joints, the major stabilizing ligament in the knee, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), assists in performing everyday actions of the human body including sitting, standing, walking, running, dancing, and participating in other sports. The injury that specifically affects this ligament is very serious and always
ACL injuries used to be seen as career ending injuries 50 years ago, however, throughout the years with the advancement in technology aiding treatment and rehabilitation procedures. Yet they are still sever and take months to recover. This is because of the precise location of the ligament within the knee joint. Resulting in no blood clot formation within the joint as a consequence scar tissue will not form and the tissue will just be filled with uncontrolled blood leading to swelling an pain within the joint (ACL reconstruction Oxford university hospital, 2017) which is why it takes between 9 to 12 months for recovery. With an ACL injury, other injuries often follow, namely MCL injuries and meniscal lesions which in time would likely lead to the patient contracting osteoarthritis due to it being a degenerative disorder consequently resulting from the meniscal and
The Anterior Cruciate Ligament also known as the ACL is deemed the most commonly torn ligament in the knee and can result from both contact and noncontact injuries. Most Anterior Cruciate Ligament injuries result from an extreme force on the lateral side of the person’s knee causing a valgus force which pushes the knee inward (Kisner & Colby, 2012, pp. 802-803). This injury to the side of the knee can also cause a “Terrible Triad” injury which also injures both the medial meniscus and the medial collateral ligament (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). Our textbook further states that “the most common noncontact mechanism is a rotational mechanism in which the tibia is externally rotated on the planted foot….this mechanism can account for as many as 78% of all ACL injuries” (Kisner & Colby, 2012, p. 803). If the person does not seek medical help with this injury they are susceptible to also injuring the remaining support ligaments as well. Patients usually present with joint effusion; possibly 25 degrees of flexion, joint swelling if blood vessels are involved, limited ROM, stress pain and instability along with quads avoidance gait patterns (Kisner & Colby, 2011, p. 208)
A torn ACL is one of the most serious and common knee injuries. Many aspects play a role in the treatment and rehabilitation of this injury. This paper will discuss the anatomy of the knee, describe a torn ACL, and the rehabilitation.
In the United States drink driving accounts for one-third of all of our driving deaths. Drunk driving has taken 10,076 people in the year 2013 alone and it will continue to rise as we remain the way we are. One person every 53 minutes’ dies from a drunk driving related incident, drink driving is an epidemic that can be stopped by getting someone else to drive for the impaired person. However, the more people that are drinking and driving on our roads the more dangerous they are for the rest of us.
The results of the survey were put analyzed and the results shown in graphs and charts displayed above. These graphs and charts were picked specifically because they stood out as significant results which may support my hypothesis. The students surveyed were mostly females with 60% of the respondents identifying as female (Chart 1). This statistic stood out because it is similar to the percentage of females in the university in 2017 which according to the WCU Office of Institutional Research is 60.3%. The percentage of male respondents in the survey however was 35% which is way below what the research office reported, at 39.7%. I must include that there were 5% of respondents who declined to answer the question about their