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Getting back on your feet — quickly; New techniques speed recovery of hurt ankles

Despite the strength of ligaments and tendons, they can be overly stretched or torn when subjected to undue stress, such as when a walker or runner slips off a curb or steps on broken pavement, a basketball player jumps and lands on another player’s foot, a skater or skier takes a spill that traps one foot or a tennis player trips and rolls over the ankle while running for a ball. Any of these accidents can also fracture a bone in or near the ankle. The most common ankle injury, accounting for about 85 per cent of sprains, is the inversion injury, in which the foot turns in toward the midline of the body and the ankle turns out toward the ground. This usually results in a sprain of one or more lateral ligaments on the outer side of the ankle. The remaining sprains are eversion injuries, in which the foot turns out and the ankle turns in. These cause far more devastating injuries of the medial ligaments on the inside of the ankle. Eversion injuries usually take months to heal.
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Full Text: The Ottawa Citizen Oct 1, 1989

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Big Front Line Allows St. John’s to Make a Winning Move

Eleanor Roosevelt’s soccer team will have to overcome a series of injuries, the most damaging to Billy Heiser, a member of the U.S. 16-and-under national team, who will miss about a month after tearing tendons in his ankle. The Raiders also lost goaltender Andy Moore to a calf muscle injury. Third-ranked Severna Park had no sympathy, defeating the Raiders 5-1 last week . . . Top-ranked Howard’s Todd Haskins has been outstanding in the Lions’ first four games. The senior midfielder, also a member of the 16-and-under national team, has 13 goals and six assists, including three goals in a 6-0 win over Kennedy . . . Seventh-ranked Oakland Mills had its 19-game winning streak ended in a 3-2 overtime loss to Kennedy last week. The defending Maryland Class AA state champions’ stresk dated back to the 1987 season. . . Dan Coplan, a graduate of Bethesda-Chevy Chase, will start on Goucher College’s first soccer team. Goucher, in its inaugural season, will play in the Chesapeake Collegiate Athletic Conference.
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Full Text: The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext) Oct 5, 1989

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Surgery to end Mayes’ year // New Orleans runner’s Achilles tendon is fixable’

NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans Saints running back Rueben Mayes, sidelined since training camp with pain in the Achilles tendon of his right leg, will undergo surgery next week and be out for the season. “It’s been rough missing all of camp and a fourth of the season. The one bright spot is that it’s something that’s fixable and it will be fixed,” Mayes said Thursday. Mayes will have the same surgery used to repair his frayed left Achilles tendon following the 1986 season. In that surgery, physicians grafted fibers from Mayes’ thigh onto the damaged tendon.
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Full Text: Austin American Statesman Oct 6, 1989

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Muscle pull keeping Morton inactive

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Full Text: The Plain Dealer Oct 12, 1989

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Everybody happy as Celts romp over Sixers by 24

[Larry Bird], as every Celtics fan who hasn’t spent the last year in the Amazon rain forest knows, is returning after surgery on both Achilles tendons a year ago. Bird’s all-around play and the Celtics’ 24-point romp entertained a crowd of 12,638 fans and erased the memory of Boston’s 41-point loss to Cleveland here a year ago. “Larry held up very well. He came off the bench late in the game, and that was a good test. He had no problems at all. Larry smoothed it out a little over last Friday, but he’s nowhere near where he will be down the road,” [Jimmy Rodgers] said.
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Full Text: Providence Journal Oct 17, 1989

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2 Hurt as Motorcycle Crashes at High Speed in Costa Mesa

The pair hadn’t driven too far when [Jose Guillermo Olmedo Rojas], traveling at more than 60 m.p.h., lost control of his Suzuki 1100 on a curving stretch of Iowa Street and plowed into two parked cars, said investigator Steve Rautus of the Costa Mesa Police Department. Olmedo, who was wearing a helmet, suffered a mangled right leg when he slammed into the cars and then became entangled in the rear wheel of the motorcycle, Rautus said. In addition, he suffered a broken right arm and nerve and tendon damage to the arm. Jones, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown from the bike. She suffered a concussion and scrapes.
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Full Text: Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) Oct 29, 1989

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Jogging: how to keep the fun in your fitness program

Your cardiovascular system will adjust more quickly to your program than your muscles, tendons and ligaments. It would be wise to invest in good quality running shoes. They provide the support necessary to comfortable and safe jogging. If you do experience discomfort, see a podiatrist. Your discomfort may be alleviated by a special shoe insert or specific type of shoe. Whenever you jog or do any kind of physical activity, stretch and warm up before and cool down after. Here is an excellent stretch to do before and after jogging. It stretches the leg muscles as well as the chest and front area of the shoulders.
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Full Text: The Ottawa Citizen Nov 5, 1989

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Warriors’ Lister May Miss Season After Surgery on Achilles’ Tendon

Golden State Warrior center Alton Lister, who had appeared in 167 consecutive NBA regular-season games, is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a ruptured right Achilles’ tendon, the Warriors said Wednesday.
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Full Text: Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext) Nov 9, 1989

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