Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits Friday, October 07, 2005 by: Alexis Black Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical procedures are the medical professionals who stand to make exorbitant amounts of money from performing them. An estimated 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed each year, writes Gary Null, PhD., in Death by Medicine. Rather than reverse the problems they purport to fix, these unwarranted procedures can often lead to greater health problems and even death.
According to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, cheerleading is the number-one cause of serious sports injuries to women. Emergency room visits for cheerleading are five times the number than for any other sport, partially because they do not wear protective gear. While many athletes are equipped with hip pads, knee pads, shin guards or helmets, smiling cheerleaders are tossed into the air and spiral down into the arms of trusted teammates. The fliers must remain tight at all times so that their bases can catch them safely. Also, because cheerleading is not yet recognized as a sport by many schools, neither proper matting nor high enough ceilings are provided to ensure safety.
Many situations can produce a stressful response and researchers have attempted to determine why it will leave an athlete more vulnerable to injury. In addition, there are many pyschosocial variables that make athletes more susceptible to injury, and psychosocial events that occur after an athlete has experienced an injury. Despite proper rehabilitation, many athletes are not psychologically equipped to cope with the impact of an athletic injury (Larson, Zaichkowsky, & Starkey, 1996). Advances in sports medicine have allowed remarkable physical recoveries, however, many members of the medical community are urging injured athletes to have the psychological aspects of their injuries treated as well. Initially, sport psychology was used as a catalyst to enhance athletic performance.
12. Describe two flexibility/warm-up exercises that are considered to be potentially dangerous to the lower back. Explain why each exercise is considered to be potentially harmful to the lower back. 13. Name the five regions of the spinal column.
Plantar Fasciitis Nursing II- Spring 2010 Kate E Reid Rasmussen College Author Note This research is being submitted on May 17th, 2010 for Jennifer Peterson’s PN 125 course at Rasmussen College by Kate Reid. The musculoskeletal system is probably the most used and abused body system that we have and many people forget how important this system is for physical movement. The musculoskeletal system includes the skeletal system of course, but it also includes the joints, muscles, ligaments, bursae, and tendons; basically everything we need to support our body and function daily. There are many disorders of this system but I will focus on plantar fasciitis. I will discuss what it is, signs and symptoms, risk factors, diagnostic tests, types of treatment, how it will impact your life and interventions that we can do to limit the pain.
Studies also show that females are more likely to have these injuries than males. Of the injuries to the knee, ACL injuries, MCL injuries, and chondromalacia are the most common. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) provides stability to the knee by connecting the femur and tibia. Tearing of the ACL is one of the most common sports injuries – especially in female athletes. ScienceDaily states, “According to the NCAA, female athletes are at least twice as likely to suffer an ACL injury as male athletes and in some cases up to eight times more likely” (“Why Women Suffer More Knee Injuries").
The Battle of Sports As a female, we only have a few sports to play without them being a co-ed sport. When asking people is cheerleading or color guard a sport; many people said no it isn’t only because the sport isn’t aggressive or a competitive sport. When comparing and contrasting color guard and cheerleading one will find out they are two very different sports. Although cheerleading and color guard are considered sports, the criteria of the sports differ. Contrasting the sports, cheerleading is the number one sport with the most causes of death and injuries.
Fact 3 Each year, between 50 000 to 100 000 women worldwide develop obstetric fistula. Fact 4 Women who experience this preventable condition suffer constant urinary incontinence which often leads to social isolation, skin infections, kidney disorders and even death if left untreated. Fact 5 Obstetric fistulae can largely be avoided by delaying the age of first pregnancy, by the cessation of harmful traditional practices and by timely access to quality obstetric care. Fact 6 Most fistula occur among women living in poverty in cultures where a woman’s status and self-esteem may depend almost entirely on her marriage and ability to bear children. Fact 7 Obstetric fistula still exists because health care systems fail to provide accessible, quality maternal health care, including family planning, skilled care at birth, basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care, and affordable treatment of fistula.
Aubrey EG 102 23 February 2011 Cheerleading is a Sport Over 4.1 million males and females all around the world devote over 2,000 hours a year to something they absolutely love (Cheerleaders 1). And all they get in return is the label of only an activity. Cheerleaders dedicate too much time, money, sweat, tears and energy just to get told by the Federal Court that they only “support other athletic teams” (Federal Court Rules 1). Those blind to cheerleading underestimate what all cheerleading involves therefore the sport is now being labeled as only an activity. The Supreme Court is wrong in the decision of cheerleading being just an activity; instead it is definitely a sport according to Title IX and the criteria it contains.
While the female athlete receives some positives through their participation in sport, their abilities are constantly being downplayed in order to emphasize their femininity. With this in mind, the American sport culture takes away from the female athlete’s ability by accentuating their female characteristics in an attempt to satisfy the gender norms. Female athletes struggle to balance the many facets of their identity while maintaining their stereotypical gender role, which commonly takes away from their athletic identity and performance. The female athlete must embrace and portray many masculine characteristics such as power, aggression, and strength in order to be successful. One reason to explain this is pointed out by the noted author and professor of sociology Judith Halberstam as she states, “Gender is a social construct” (119).