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None of these processes occur in isolation. "Everything is failing together," says Dr. David Felson, a rheumatologist at Boston University. "That includes bone damage, the responses to that, muscle weakness, inflammation of the lining of the joint and ligament disruption." It follows that to be successful, any treatment will have to deal with all these factors...
Then misfortune struck. Karlen first went down during the U.S. Open qualifiers on Jan. 4 when he sprained a ligament in his foot. The team was able to account for his absence following the break with an 8-1 victory over Williams...
...definition, winter sport is a dangerous business. Participants have to perform on a treacherous surface of ice or snow often at frightening speeds. In summer sports, just about the worst that can happen to an athlete is a pulled muscle or a torn ligament. In winter, the stakes are higher. Over the past dozen years five top-flight skiers have died pursuing their chosen sport, with dozens of others suffering career-threatening injuries. But still they race...
Patterson will figure in what should be an interesting week of practices that will determine who plays No. 1 against Princeton and Penn this weekend. Co-captain Peter Karlen played No. 4 on Saturday in his second match back since spraining a ligament in his foot at the U.S. Open qualifiers on Jan. 4. He looked strong in his first game against Nicholas Kyme, the eighth-ranked player in the nation, aggressively going after balls in a 10-8 loss. But he gradually grew fatigued and lost the next two sets...
Eberharter has had two careers. In 1991 at the age of 21, he became the youngest member of the Austrian team, winning world championships in the super-G and the combined downhill and slalom. But then came the injuries. A torn ligament in practice for the 1992 Albertville Games, a broken collarbone later in the year and a torn anterior cruciate ligament in 1994 kept him off the piste. Poor form in 1995-1996 prompted the coaches to drop him from the World Cup team to the less competitive Europa Cup, where he dominated the 1996-97 season and returned...