Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racket sports, such as squash and tennis, are prime offenders. In squash it is the confined quarters that often lead to unpremeditated mayhem. But both games involve cutting movement, sharp changes of direction and sudden stops that can cause injuries to knee and ankle. Says Berson: "The knee joint really wasn't designed for these movements." Ankle sprains are common, especially in women whose tendons and ligaments have been stressed by years of wearing high-heeled shoes. Then there are ruptures of the Achilles tendon. In the unconditioned, the unexpected force exerted by rapid movements sometimes causes the tendon...
...troubles could be avoided, doctors point out, with some simple precautions. According to Dr. Dinesh Patel, co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Sports Medicine Clinic, "Sixty percent of athletic injuries could be prevented by training and warmup, another 20% by proper shoes and prescreening for tight joints or other abnormalities." Doctors also recommend a complete physical (including the treadmill stress test) for anyone over 35 before any form of exercise is begun. In selecting a sport, weight, body build and general flexibility must be considered. Fat people should forsake jogging in favor of sports like swimming that mitigate...
...Loeb Ex before the beginning of When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, you are confronted by a reconstruction of a sleazy small-town diner and an actor dressed in greaser attire with a tattoo that says "Born Dead" on his arm smoking a cigarette as if it were a joint. Somehow it seems like a good time to go home and watch George Scott ground into double plays...
...opportunity to observe the permanent SALT delegations at work. His report: For nearly six years, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have been haggling over what is potentially one of the most important pieces of paper in the world. It is also one of the most complicated. The typescript of the Joint Draft Text for a SALT II agreement runs 61 pages-ten times as long as the SALT I agreement Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed in 1972. Every page is stamped SECRET, and almost every sentence is the result of months, in some cases years, of bargaining...
...concessions on the West Bank and Gaza. Israel would agree to a declaration of principles involving the future of these occupied territories and the 1.1 million Palestinians living there. He said that Israel would agree not to annex those areas, not to establish any more settlements there once a joint declaration had been achieved, and to maintain only enough military force there for its own security. He added that the Begin government would be prepared to accept a West Bank administration composed of Israeli and Jordanian representatives and local Palestinians...