Word: elbows
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...cruciate ligament tear, probably the knee injury that ended quarterback Tom Brady's season on Sept. 7. But thanks to the marvels of modern sports medicine, the Pats' superstar should be dissecting defenses again in 2009. Ever since surgeon Frank Jobe revolutionized baseball in the 1970s with the pioneering elbow-repair technique now known as Tommy John surgery, doctors have been developing innovative ways to treat sports injuries. From managing concussions (some 300,000 annually in the U.S.; football players and female athletes are at higher risk) to 'scoping shoulders and knees, modern physicians can restore athletes' abilities, resuscitate their...
TOMMY JOHN SURGERY The L.A. pitcher got the first elbow-ligament replacement in 1974; today 83% of patients come back throwing heat...
...tells of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's frustration at being besieged by cancer-site advocates--lung, breast, blood--and those for other terrible diseases, each unwilling to let dollars pass to another without an argument. "Within that group, you have a lot of fighting, hogging, people trying to elbow each other out," says Armstrong. The legislators' message to these groups is simple: Get your acts together...
...Absolutely." The word almost knocked me to the floor, as if LeBron James threw his massive elbow into my puny chest. Did he really just say what I think he said? During a June interview for TIME's Olympic preview issue, I asked James if he could guarantee that the United States would win gold in Beijing. It was a throwaway question, a standard strategy sports journalists employ to see if an athlete will prematurely pump his chest. Sure, guarantees get overblown, but they do say a lot about an athlete. He or she is confident, even cocky, and willing...
Other bones can provide additional clues. Elbow bones tend to fuse in a chronological order, so scans revealing how far along this process has come could provide more information about age. The skull can also be helpful. Babies are born with an unfused cranium and, as children grow up, a series of sutures come together to seal the gap. In some, however, certain sutures remain open through adulthood, making this an important but hardly conclusive test...