Word: tendons
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...away with the IC4A meet as a sophomore, but competed on only one or two occasions last year. He should Provide a good test for sophomore Walt Hewlett, who won without being pushed against Providence last week. Crimson Captain Ed Meehan, who has been plagued by a bad Achilles tendon, should be closer to top form Saturday and could stay with Machooka and Hewlett...
Veteran Curt Simmons, 34, suddenly found himself pitching three shutouts in three starts. Ernie Broglio, bothered by a recurring tendon inflammation, was strong enough to rack up his 16th victory. Shortstop Dick Groat, 32, fortified with Novocain for a painful ribcage injury, is baseball's best batter...
...took $63,121 in 1955. But he made only $5,595 in 1953, $5,358 in 1956, and in 13 years on the tour he won only nine tournaments. As he got older, it began to look as if he might not win another. His shoulders ached from bursitis; tendon trouble swelled his fingers until they looked, someone said, "like sausages left too long on the broiler." To top it off, somebody swiped his favorite eleven-year-old putter in Augusta last April...
...objective of surgery in such cases is not only to re-establish joint space by the cutting and removal of thickened tissue, but also to relocate tightened tendons so maximum flexion is obtained in the joints. Dr. Sakellarides began the operation at the joints between hand and fingers where he made an incision across the knuckles, cut through joint tissue, and removed the heads of the hand bones. Then he moved down to the finger joints where he cut out more thickened tissue, removed some ligaments, as well as the shortened tendon fibers which cause swan-neck deformity...
...athlete's muscles rippled as he prepared to shoot the final point of the match; the tendon on his left index finger looked red and strained, but he was a true tiddlywinker and would not flinch. After a fleeting glace towards the victor's decanter of sherry, he squidged, scored, and the Gargoyles had downed Penn 26-9 in last Saturday's match...