Sedate game capable of taking its toll

Tiger Woods holds on to his left knee after teeing off on the second hole during the fourth round of the 2008 US Open championship at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego. Woods has been dogged with injuries - mainly associated with the knee - which have necessitated numerous operations and long spells away from tournament play. - (Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP)

PHILIP REID

GOLF:  IN CONTRAST with other sports, golf is a rather sedate, even benign, activity. Unlike hockey or hurling, there are no flaying sticks made from hickory or ash clashing with bone or muscle. Unlike rugby, soccer and Gaelic football, there are no crunching or sliding tackles or off-the-ball shenanigans to worry about.

And, yet, as professionals and amateurs alike have discovered, there are no shortage of injury concerns associated with the sport.

No one is immune. Tiger Woods, the long-time world number one, has been dogged with injuries – mainly associated with the knee – which have necessitated numerous operations and long spells away from tournament play. He is not alone. A large number of tour players have, at one time or another, been subjected to injury ranging from knee to back to elbow and wrist amongst others.

Not surprisingly, medical studies in the United States, Europe and Australia have pinpointed lower back pain and wrist injuries as the most common complaints – among both professional and amateur players – followed by injuries to the upper extremities, elbow and shoulder. In these studies, it found that professionals experienced a higher number of wrist injuries and amateurs were more susceptible to elbow problems.

Dr Suzi Clarke, from the Sports Surgery Clinic in Santry, Co Dublin, has encountered all of these injuries, from the common to the more bizarre. Apart from back complaints and such like, the more unusual include people falling into bunkers, ditches and rivers, being hit by golf balls or clubs on the backswing of their playing partners, or – not related to the actual playing of the game – being hit by golf carts or involved in cart crashes. The most unusual? “Does someone choking on their steak at the 19th hole count?” she wondered.

“Lower back is probably the most common, as there is often an exacerbation of previous (medical) conditions and also it affects people with degenerative changes, wear and tear, leading to disc problems,” she explained, adding: “The biggest thing any player can do to prevent injuries is to have an adequate warm-up. And, if you do get injured, it is important to get the injury attended to as soon as possible.

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Sedate game capable of taking its toll
Sedate game capable of taking its toll

“Does someone choking on their steak at the 19th hole count?” she wondered. “Lower back is probably the most common, as there is often an exacerbation of previous (medical) conditions and also it affects people with degenerative changes, wear and tear,



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Marvels Kraven vs Sabertooth?who wins this fight?

Kraven grants himself a number of abilities counting ample superhuman strength, speed, stamina, agility, and reflexes to make him a corporal threat to Spider-Man, though these powers aren’t as developed as those possessed by Spider-Man. Kraven’s body is also more durable and more strong to certain forms of injury than the body of a normal human. He can withstand fantastic impact forces, such as falling from numerous tales or being repeatedly struck by a superhumanly strong opponent, that would severely injure or kill a normal human, with small to no injury to himself

Sabretooth was a mutant with a number of natural mutant powers and artificial improvements to his physiology. His primary mutant power was an accelerated healing ability that allowed him to rekindle hurt or ruined areas of his body and cellular structure far beyond the capabilities of an run of the mill human. He may possibly rekindle organs such as missing eyes and generous parts of flesh. Sabretooth’s natural mutant attributes stemmed from, at least partially, his accelerated healing factor. This “healing factor” also contracted him virtual immunity to poisons, most drugs, toxins, and diseases, and limited immunity to the fatigue poisons generated by his own body.[43] The unique regenerative qualities of his healing powers and “age suppression factor,” Sabretooth’s natural aging process, caused him to age at an unusually slow rate. While he was of an unknown advanced age, Sabretooth had the appearance and vitality of a man in his corporal prime.

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