Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vitro fertilization clinic, and the journey has been known to rock the soundest marriages. "If you want to illustrate your story on infertility, take a picture of a couple and tear it in half," says Cleveland Businessman James Popela, 36, speaking from bitter experience. "It is not just the pain and indignity of the medical tests and treatment," observes Betty Orlandino, who counsels infertile couples in Oak Park, Ill. "Infertility rips at the core of the couple's relationship; it affects sexuality, self-image and selfesteem. It stalls careers, devastates savings and damages associations with friends and family...
Like all top athletes, Joan Benoit is accustomed to pain. But one day last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time...
...popularity, arthroscopy, some doctors complain, is being overused, especially in diagnosis. It does have some drawbacks. Its primary use is in removing torn tissue and bone chips, but doctors must still open the knee to work on ligaments and tendons. Also, patients seeing the small wounds and feeling little pain after the operation may be tempted to exercise too soon. James was surprised when Benoit arrived for a checkup only a week after surgery and told him that she had already completed two one-hour runs. Says he: "I've operated on a lot of other runners...
...Thomas Jefferson liked to read and write while taking his ease on a specially adapted chaise longue. Mark Twain and Winston Churchill often worked lying back, their heads supported, facing their books or writing pads at eye level. In such a position, they were able to prevent many a pain in the neck...
...prelims on the first morning of Olympic competition, Moffet qualified fastest, in Olympic-record time. But four strokes into the second 50, he felt a muscle let go in his right thigh. Hours later, after a shot of Xylocaine, he swam the final in pain and managed a fifth place on arm power and guts. Lundquist finished in new world-record time and then comforted Moffet. That was to be expected; Lundquist, who has had his own ups and downs since 1980, is an openhearted fellow and a teammate. But after Moffet left the pool on crutches, the foreigner...