Injuries and Ultimate
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Loading ...So, I went to a reunion for my fall’s senior seminar yesterday–we had a good class, maybe 15 of us total, and we got to travel out to San Diego for a neuroscience conference there. We all got along pretty well, so we decided to have a reunion and our professor came too, with a slide show he had prepared.
The slide show had pictures of each of us in turn with one or two distinctive quotes–one of our students, an overachieving junior, was quoted with “Hey, I read 10 extra articles on today’s topic, even though they weren’t assigned, and I have about 70 or 80 extra questions to ask you so…can we talk after class?” Hilarious, coming from a professor.
Anyways, his quote for me (since I often spoke to him about ultimate rather than anything relating to our shared field of study) was “Check it out, I just did a search on PubMed for ‘Frisbee’ and there’s actually an article on it!”
Naturally, I immediately checked PubMed afterwards and found said article, published in 2006.
If you’ve ever wondered just what kind of toll this sport takes on one’s body, this is a good article to read. Of note:
- 88% of the 135 players surveyed had missed playing due to injury, and half of all of the players had recurrent injuries
- 65% of the 135 reported ankle injuries at some point
- 53% reported knee injuries at some point
I don’t know if anybody cares to look up statistics from other sports to compare, but those all strike me as pretty high percentages.
Try and take care of yourself.
“No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.”
When I was in Japan, the ESL area of the university I studied at had a poster with a picture of Yoda that read:
“DON’T talk like Yoda! Come to (such and such class)”
(Japanese syntax is similar to Yoda speak)