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...More important, the early games can be dangerous, injury-inducing torture for athletes forced to play hard before their bodies are ready. By last week, with the regular season still a fortnight away, the casualty list was lengthening into the roster of an all-pro team in traction. A sampling...
...suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went to the provinces and summoned Walter L. Fisher. Walter T. Fisher...
...acre central city area were cleared for the Expo 74 site. Ramshackle structures on two islands in the Spokane River were also razed, and the polluted river was cleaned up so that now, surging green and foamy through the fair site, it is a major at traction, complete with falls that can be crossed by overhead gondolas...
...nature to withstand a twisting action (torque) when the leg is held rigid by a cleated shoe planted firmly in soft ground. To orthopedists nothing is more predictable than this "football knee." Houston's Dr. Bruce Cameron reasoned that while players must have cleats to ensure good traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player can pivot on the plate while the cleats remain implanted in the sod. Result: many...
...Because doctors have no totally accurate way of judging the strength of bone while it knits, they often immobilize broken limbs longer than necessary. Overtime in traction could soon be eliminated, however. John Jurist, a biophysicist, and Dr. Edmund Markey, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of Wisconsin Medical School, are experimenting with a technique that could enable physicians to determine with precision whether a bone is strong enough to bear weight. So far, their research has focused exclusively on a long leg bone, the tibia, to which a vibrating machine is attached. After the bone is vibrated at various...