~ John Lee ~ setting my sights lower so I can set them higher
With two teens dead in two days, is it time to take a closer look at High School Sports, particularly football, to determine the winning solution for this American pasttime?
~ John Lee ~ setting my sights lower so I can set them higher
when she was doing all that, do you think that there should be some sort of better monitoring, physicals, or perhaps more frequent mini-physicals, especiallly for teens who hit growth spurts?
I wonder if some of the demands on their bodies in organized sports put extra strain on parts and organs that have not developed as quickly as other things in a growth spurt?
Not saying sports are bad, I am just wondering if they are a catalyst for something that may otherwise not have appeared or perhaps manifested itself while biking to school or something …
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There were no physicals required for either sport, at least here. It was left up to parents to police their own kid’s health.
That said, in Jeny’s case she was always getting hurt one way or another because she simply played too hard and never quit. We were on a first-name basis with both the people at the ER at the hospital next door and at one of the close walk-in clinics.
She was never hurt very bad. Sprained this or bruised that, but my point is that in HER case, one medico or another was always looking her over, or so it seemed.
I think this sort of thing is best left to parents.
~ John Lee ~ setting my sights lower so I can set them higher
actually in the incidents yesterday and today the deaths were boys, and come to think of it, whenever I have heard of one of those basketball players with some heart defect collapsing at a game its been a boy, makes me wonder if gender plays a role; seems to me that the only time you hear of girls being seriously injured or dying is when a cheerleader is dropped on her head, which is a different, but equally devasting, event compared to the boys collapsing
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I do not believe so. I have a similar heart condition as some of the athletes that have died in the past. My cardiologist told me if I didn’t stop my excessiving exercising that it would kill me.
We didn’t even know I had a heart condition until we found out I was pregnant with Sean. Had it not been for that pregnancy and needing to slow down, I’d probably be dead now as my heart condition would’ve gone undetected.
There were no real outward signs that were significant or noticable to me. I just didn’t know what those signs were. I kept pushing and pushing and thought if I could do it, my body could take it.
In all the cases I’ve read or heard about, each of the kids most likely had a similar condition as I did and pushed really hard and their hearts could not take it.
Athletes normally do not get their hearts measured and performance tested to see if they have any issues or not. I was seemingly healthy and fine, just as these young people.
What they were doing were exercising their bodies far beyond their anaerobic thresholds for very long periods of time and consistently very often. Additionally, they were not providing their bodies, most likely, with the nutrients & rest they needed to sustain that level of activity. Plus, their hearts were more genetically predispositioned for heart defects, as mine is due to family history.
Yes, I could’ve dropped dead doing my powerlifting sessions, or maybe during one of my runs/sprints. I never knew until a very good obgyn detected my heart was not operating as it should have.
