Word: shin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...
...notes that he and his colleagues are not in business to put careless skiers back on the slopes overnight. But electrotherapy can aid patients with nonhealing fractures-notably elderly patients and youngsters with congenital pseudoarthrosis of the tibia, an inherited condition in which nerve defects block healing of fractured shin bones...
...second virtuouso performer for Harvard was sophomore John Murphy, who finished seven seconds behind Fitzsimmons after missing all of last season with a stress fracture in his shin...
...three times his weight. The shock wave travels from heel through ankle to lower leg, knee, upper leg, hip and lower back. Ill effects are legion. Every runner sooner or later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says Berson: "Our ancestors evolved by running barefoot across a grassy plain to escape saber-toothed tigers. The human leg is not designed for running long distances on cement...
Boston's other teams haven't been burning up the turf either. The New England Tea Men took it on the chin (or is it shin?) twice this week: first striker Mike Flanagan lost the league scoring title to New Yorker Giorgio Chinaglia, and then the Fort Lauderdale Strikers struck the team from the playoffs. We're not sure which is sadder, but it still means an end to pro soccer around these parts for quite a few months...