… “We are going to be careful and cautious about this,” [Ali] Curtis said. “But we’re confident that once he has the surgery that he’ll be able to return to play. It’ll take probably approximately four months. Now that could be shorter or it could be lengthier depending on how we manage that process.”
The news came as a surprise to Bradley’s club and country teammate Jozy Altidore, who said on Monday that the injury “was handled poorly.”
“In my opinion, it was handled poorly,” Altidore told reporters. “This is an injury from two months ago and it’s not the first time this happened in terms of … we’ve seen our injury rate at this club [climb] since ’18, and we’re obviously trying to get it better, but it hasn’t. Two months have gone by and now he’s having surgery and he’ll be out until June.
“It has still not sunk in because it has all come so quickly,” Davis said. “My coach tends to give me mini‑motivational pep talks before and after training sessions. I haven’t had an international vest yet but with the Olympics just a few months away I can’t avoid the target.”
Davis ran for the University of Edinburgh and continued to stay fit when she moved to London but it was only when she joined her local club, Clapham Chasers, that she started training more seriously.
Her coach, Philip Krissi, encouraged her to run her first marathon in 2018, which she finished in 2:41, despite racing conservatively because she feared she would “get to six miles to go, hit a wall and die”. When she followed it up by running the London Marathon last year in 2:32, despite a hip injury in the buildup, she knew she was capable of more.
Before Camryn Biegalski left Lombard for the University of Wisconsin, her club coach, Rory Dames, had a strong message for the rising star.
“When Cam was getting ready to come to Wisconsin, Rory called me,” Wisconsin coach Paula Wilkins said. “He said, ‘I want to tell you, she’s not doing all the things she needs to do. She’s cutting corners.’ ”
Biegalski got to Madison, Wisconsin, with a chip on her shoulder and a point to prove.
Picture this: Despite your jam-packed schedule, you’ve still reserved enough time to unwind and relax before bed. Your bedroom is cool, calm, and dark, and you’re able to fall asleep and stay asleep without any trouble. The next morning, you manage to wake up before your alarm and feel well-rested, perhaps even energetic, and ready to take on the world. If this sounds like a scenario you can only dream of, you’re not alone – about half of Americans wake up feeling well-rested. We’ve gathered the 17 best tips for creating the ideal sleep environment to improve your quality of sleep so you can (finally) get a good night’s rest.
… So what is sleep hygiene? Well, sleep hygiene simply means good practices and habits for promoting a restful night’s sleep. It’s my go-to when patients are dealing with sleep issues. Sleep hygiene is easy to employ, and may even be more effective than prescription medications, which have many potential side effects and are only meant for short-term use.
Let’s take a look at some things you can do to start improving your sleep tonight.
Recently I was giving a talk to a group of elementary-aged girls about injury prevention in sports. My first thoughts about what to speak about went immediately to safety equipment in sports. Helmets, mouth guards, shin guards, and shoulder pads are all great pieces of equipment. They do help prevent injuries in their respective sports. Protective sports gear is definitely on the front line when it comes to injury prevention. Protective gear is the first thing that several of the girls mentioned when I asked about preventing getting hurt while playing sports. But I wanted to teach them something that they hadn’t already heard a million times and make it fun at the same time. This brought me to injury prevention through exercise.
Doing certain exercises to minimize injury isn’t something that is new. But preventative exercise is getting more attention as studies show how well it works! Having young athletes doing a specific warm-up program a few times per week can definitely lower injury risk. It can allow players to spend more time on the field and less time sidelined with an injury. Most of the exercises are easy enough that a coach can learn the program and implement it on his or her own team weekly.
A polymer that releases acid in response to a hammer blow can trigger “bruising” that reveals where and when it was struck (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b12861). This kind of mechanochemistry—in which a mechanical force sets off a chemical reaction—could eventually lead to materials that offer an early warning signal of impending structural failure, for example. “The overall goal here is to create useful stress-responsive materials,” says Stephen L. Craig of Duke University, whose PhD student Yangju Lin led the work.
A variety of medical devices can be inserted into the gastrointestinal tract to treat, diagnose, or monitor GI disorders. Many of these have to be removed by endoscopic surgery once their job is done. However, MIT engineers have now come up with a way to trigger such devices to break down inside the body when they are exposed to light from an ingestible LED.
The new approach is based on a light-sensitive hydrogel that the researchers designed. Incorporating this material into medical devices could avoid many endoscopic procedures and would give doctors a faster and easier way to remove devices when they are no longer needed or are not functioning properly, the researchers say.
Dr Chris Duke and Dr Micheál Newell are the co-founders of Edge Performance Analytics, a sports technology company focused on athlete limb and specifically knee joint function. This may sound like a niche market, but it’s a potentially lucrative one. In the UK alone knee injuries cost Premier League clubs many millions of pounds during the 2018/2019 season.
“On-pitch functional performance data for the knee has been identified as a key requirement by leading sports physicians and our platform provides it,” says Duke. “Our software technology and proprietary algorithms give a previously unavailable level of data to performance coaches and rehabilitation specialists that can help them make more informed decisions.”
… “It’s just about energy,” Cambridge says. “Since I was younger, I’ve always brought energy to the defensive end. I don’t know; it’s just something about defense that fires me up. “
But her success has not come easy.
In May 2017, Cambridge tore the ACL and lateral meniscus in her right knee during her Amatuer Athletic Union (AAU) season. By that December, she was forced to have a second knee surgery to clean up the scar tissue in her knee that ultimately led to arthrofibrosis—a condition characterized by a buildup of scar tissue around a joint, usually after a traumatic injury or surgical procedure. It was before this surgery when doctors told her that there was a good chance that her playing days were over. It was unclear to doctors at the time whether or not the surgery would do anything to help, and if it didn’t, Cambridge would not be able to play again.
Shortly after the second surgery, however, Cambridge realized that she had started to feel better than she had since the injury first occurred, and she slowly began her path to rehab.
Imagine receiving customized nutrition advice based on your personal biologic or genetic profile. That’s the “future of food,” according to a UBS analyst, who sees diet personalization as the next plant-based meat.
Personalized nutrition could generate annual revenues as high as $64 billion by 2040, the firm said. Plus, big-name companies such as Apple, Uber and Amazon could benefit from the massive growth opportunity.
“With heightened health awareness among consumers, yet also more people suffering from ailments which are attributable to poor nutrition, there is growing demand for solutions that can improve individual nutritional choices,” said UBS analyst Charles Eden in a note to clients on Tuesday. “Personalised nutrition … represents a potential such solution.”
… In 2019, a total of 14 Matildas were signed to NWSL teams, Makenzie Arnold having joined the 13 listed above in August. A whopping two-thirds of NWSL clubs had Australians on their rosters.
Flash forward a few months, however, and the probability is that less than half that amount of Matildas will be playing Stateside. There are several factors for this, but the first is foreign league competition.
