Word: wristing
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...little backstory: Faxon was on the ropes late in the 1999 season, vis-a- vis earnings and future tournament exemptions, as a divorce and then a broken wrist had taken a toll on his results. Then, all of a sudden, he did a terrific thing: He won the B.C. Open, which boosted him solidly into the middle echelon of money winners and won him invitations that would allow him to sleep peacefully for another 12 months at least. Good...
...beginning his title defense. -Gosh, the golf was nothing like London Links. But it?s easier to go in this direction-Scottish links-style golf back to our parkland game-rather than switch from our game to theirs. I played well from the beginning, everything was on, and the wrist, which had still been hurting early in the season, felt okay." By Sunday Faxon had the lead, and he still held it-but barely- at the 18th tee, when he sent his tee shot far right towards the forest. "It went right through the trees and out it came...
...Ralph Schumacher, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Marian Garfinkel, a yoga teacher, published a brief paper on carpal tunnel syndrome in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The eight-week study determined that "a yoga-based regimen was more effective than wrist splinting or no treatment in relieving some symptoms and signs of carpal tunnel syndrome." Letters to JAMA challenged the study's methodology. The authors replied that it was a preliminary investigation to determine if further research was merited. They said...
...quite as well as resorting to arms - and that creates an incentive for nationalist extremists to keep on fighting to redraw Balkan borders. The Macedonian insurgency began with small groups of men infiltrated from NATO-controlled Kosovo, who then launched attacks on security force personnel. And despite some verbal wrist-slapping from NATO, the reward for that strategy may turn out to be a place at the negotiating table to determine Macedonia's future. The failure of the alliance to act on its harsh criticisms of the rebels also signaled an ambivalence to the mainstream ethnic-Albanian parties in Skopje...
...Unfortunately, however, Cha's tale did not have a happy ending. Like Katz, he too suffered an injury that forced him to withdraw on the second day of competition. After winning eight of his bouts, Cha sustained a wrist injury that prevented him from continuing. He still held on to finish 20th in the field...