Anterior cruciate ligament

Anterior Cruciate Ligament We’ve all have had a challenge in one point of our lives when nothing will ever be the same again. When, in some cases, many times you ask yourself “Why me? Why now?” Well for me, that challenge came to me unexpected, uncalled for, and out of the blue. On January 31, 2014 is the day I tore my ACL… The day my high school soccer career was at risk from the minute I felt that pop inside of my left knee. Every time I step on the field I get flashbacks from that day. It…

Needs Analysis: Soccer Soccer is a demanding sport. Players must be well conditioned, strong, and flexible. The legs are the obvious muscle that must be toned, but few people realize that the core, arms, neck, and back must have a strong muscular background as well. These muscles work together to contribute to the success of a soccer player. Injuries to the muscles happen often, but this risk of injury can be minimized with flexibility training. Multiple different training techniques are…

Olympic drug testing is one way of finding out if the athletes really did work their hardest to achieve where they are on that day. Although Lance Armstrong and Ben Johnson may have good reason, all team members should be drug tested in order to compete in the Olympic games because new rules for anti-doping have been made, and once local athletes test positive for performance enhancing drugs, they should start thinking of new lives as codes seem to have nothing in place for them. Lance…

2.10.1 Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) Fuzzy set theory explain this technique to enhance an image of handwritten scripts and for an edge detection of wrist X-ray images. In the case of the contrast enhancement process of an image, the Fuzzy set also seen as a collection of membership functions, where each represents how much degree of corresponding grayscale pixels is possible to be “bright”. In other words, a Fuzzy membership value of the image Fuzzy set can be understood as the degree of…

Approximately, Dr. Coffman has to perform fourteen surgeries per day. There are minor surgeries such as scratches that need stiches, dental care, broken bones that would take 20 minutes to finish. But there are major surgeries such as Ruptured Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) which is basically knee dislocation or Cataracts Surgery that require up to hour and a half to perform (Coffman). There are also veterinarians who take care of large sized animals such as horses, elephants, cattle. This is…

The Effect of Psychological Support on Injured Athletes’ Rehabilitation Outcomes It has been shown that when an athlete gets injured, he/ she undergoes a great deal of stress both physically and mentally. The athlete often experiences frustration, anger, boredom, and fear to return to sport (Pearson & Jones, 1992). In fact, studies have shown that even though the vast majority of injured athletes get cleared to return to sport once they are completely recovered physically, many of them do not…

All around the nation kids and parents anticipate the beginning of fall, because, for them, this is the start of football season. Kids of all ages have the opportunity to put on pads and play this contact sport- but should they? For years parents have allowed their kids to play football without truly considering the side effects that come along with it. When one considers all the potential dangers of football, it becomes evident that parents should not allow children to participate in this sport…

Each injury had longer lasting effects than the last, but I persisted to make successful comebacks after each one. The most recent and devastating injury I have had is the tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in my right knee. This injury occurred in the spring of 2015. Though it has been tedious, painful and frustrating to reach top physical form, the hours of physiotherapy will have payed off when I return to play once again this spring…

“Research is a way to gather information and make a sound decision or judgement or develop new knowledge” according to (Latin and Berg, 2007, p.4). In sports therapy research can be used in a variety of ways for example, a sports therapist may undertake research to find new exercises that strengthen the shoulders, a sports therapist may do this because their client has been doing the same exercise for several weeks and has become bored doing the same exercises. Sackett (1996) states that…

A significant chapter in my life was attending high school. High school was not the best four years of my life, as most claim it’s supposed to be. Learning to manage my workload and balancing my extracurricular activities was a task that I never seemed to achieve in high school. Homework was never in my vocabulary, so of course I struggled with keeping my grades up. Volleyball and Generation Rap received my undivided attention. Although, my participation in those activities tremendously hendred…