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Kara Goucher to Run Women’s Mile at Millrose Games
Posted January 30th, 2008 at 12:01 PM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Track & Field
The 2007 world championships bronze medalist at 10,000m, Kara Goucher, will contest the New York Road Runners women’s mile at Friday night’s 101st Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden, organizers announced yesterday. She will face, amongst others, Russia’s Liliya Shobukhova, the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships silver medalist at 3000m.
Goucher has an excellent chance of improving on her modest 4:46.45 personal best. Coached by Alberto Salazar, Goucher is working on improving her speed this indoor season to help her be more competitive at the end of her longer track races. She has very strong personal best times of 8:34.99 for 3000m, 14:55.02 for 5000m, 31:17.12 for 10,000m and 1:06:57 for the half-marathon.
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How can I rehabilitate
a knee injury?
Posted January 4th, 2007 at 7:00 AM by Jamal Walker
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
Many sports injuries cause a progressive permanent osteoarthritis that will prevent a person from exercising to cause the very diseases that a regular exercise program is supposed to prevent. Sports medicine surgeon James Garrick, writing in the medical journal Lancet (Dec 2005), explains why.
You are supposed to exercise. It makes you stronger, faster, healthier and may even prolong your life. However, every time you exercise, you risk injury and many sports injuries last forever.
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Arthroscopic knee surgery to remove cartilage is usually useless
Posted November 14th, 2006 at 3:41 PM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
I have said repeatedly that surgery to trim cartilage in the knee is worthless. I have seen many patients who have had cartilage removed by surgeons for an average charge of $5000 and then they must have a knee replacement several years later. The surgeon must know about the harm he is doing because he has to see his patients for followup, when many of them require knee replacement surgery.
Now a report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that knee surgery to remove cartilage is worse than doing nothing. The headline from Baylor Medical School, where the landmark study was performed, is that “Study Finds Common Knee Surgery No Better Than Placebo.” Patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who underwent placebo arthroscopic surgery were just as likely to report pain relief as those who received the real procedure. The researchers say their results challenge the usefulness of one of the most common surgical procedures performed for osteoarthritis of the knee. Read the rest of this entry »
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