Mother May I? Female Body Bio-Mechanics Body Typing Before Picking Your Sport

What makes an athlete be ideal for or select a sport? Michael Jordan's sons shot hoop, but Mark Spitz prowess in the pool only figuratively fathered Phelps, his kids never became swimmers. Genetics of course a good indication of body type, but what other factors go into your ability to have a potential career in a particular sport? In Baltimore at the American College of Sports Medicine 57th Annual Meeting suggest that a comprehensive analysis of female bio-mechanics during early pubertal growth spurts can predict which athletes are most likely to experience anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears in the future. The news report went on to say " finding is important because it might allow for early intervention in high-risk athletes to prevent ACL injuries.""Before puberty, the incidence of ACL tears is equal in boys and girls. However, beginning at age 12, The ACL is one of those ligaments in the knee joint highly strained by lateral movement. If you bust yours you can still run, but dodging a tackle, no longer possible. In youth boys and girls have about the same rate of injuries. As young women develop their female hip structure and stance these tears become 10 times more common in females. The researchers postulate that early training in boys may be partly protective, not just 'hips and ass' (I'm paraphrasing here). Perhaps strengthening their joints as they grow will avoid injuries. The researchers felt one factor in the USA was that some of these girls didn't do their sport earlier enough and didn't get enough strength training to give the girls a spurt of muscle and mechanics at the same time as they grow in height. This results in what the Marilynd researchers are calling, bio-mechanical stresses that may lead to ACL tear." Prevent Injuries? How? Steering you from the soccer field to the pool or from the gym to the coxswain position? Is that why the Lincoln Ballet school has been reported to x-ray young girls hips to check their ability to plié? China's athletic-training program has done this for decades, which is hand select body types for certain sports And beginning strength training early enough has not been the issue in China.. It had been reported before the Bejing Olympics that nearly 400,000 young hopeful were developed in 3,000 sports schools after being tagged in elementary school and sent to train at these state-run sports academies before the age of nine. Physical characteristics are prominent in who is selected to train in a particular sport. One story that is a bitter reminder that systematic selection might not be wise is that of the tragedy of Dong Fangxiao, January 23, 1986 in Hebei, North China, competing as a birth year 1983, making her past the age of 16 when she'd be allowed to join the Olympic team, she competed virtually flawlessly in spite of her age of 14 and helped. China win Bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Through a situation of odd events her real age at the time of competition was revealed recently and she was stripped of her medal, as were her teammates. Later it was reported that she had hip dysplasia, so her potentially long brilliant career was cut short anyway, so maybe we will just have to put a bit more science into picking those gymnasts, China?

Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you...

Post-Endometrial Ablation Syndrome

If you have had an endometrial ablation and have developed symptoms of pelvic pain you might have post endometrial ablation syndrome. What is post-endometrial ablation syndrome? It is a constellation of symptoms due to entrapped blood or tissue within a uterus that has previously undergone an endometrial ablation. We are able to diagnose this at Women's Health Practic e but occasionally other conditions are causing similar symptoms. Other complications of endometrial ablation include pregnancy, risks from pre-existing conditions such as a polyp or fibroid, an infection of the uterus, or a pregnancy. If you have had a tubal ligation then it is possible that the condition could be post-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome. The ablation procedure is designed to destroy all lining tissue, but in fact there is no way to confirm the completeness of the ablation. It is thought that either residual or regrowth of the tissue is producing the symptoms of post-endometrial ablation syndrom...

You Have an IUD: But a Positive Pregnancy Test

Fortunately IUD pregnancy failures are rare. But if you have an IUD for contraception, and you get a positive pregnancy test, you probably ask yourself, what next? Well, make your gyno appointment promptly, this is a condition that is not typically an emergency, but it can be and it’s not handled over the phone or on a blog, or through self diagnosis! That being said, some researchers from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas decided to look back at over 4100 women who had IUDs and of those 42 cases who became pregnant in their institution, over about a year period of time, to help understand what these women could expect when they got to their gyno and what actually happened to their pregnancies. Accurate pregnancy diagnosis, pelvic examination, and pelvic ultrasound were the cornerstones of the evaluations. They had very specific ways they looked at their ultrasound to prove there was no pregnancy in the fallopian tube, or partially in the fallopian tube...

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