From: wsonnen@alnitak.usc.edu (Wayne Sonnen)
Newsgroups: sci.med,misc.fitness
Subject: Re: any sports medicine types out there?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 12:42:27 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu

In article <1992Nov5.141131.16006@cbnews.cb.att.com> lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
>In article <BSIMON.92Nov4155902@elvis.stsci.edu> bsimon@elvis.stsci.edu (Bernie Simon) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov4.201715.22810@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:
>>
>>   I have what I suspect is an overuse injury (for lack of a better term).
>>
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>>
>>Your body is trying to tell you to slow down. If you don't take its
>>advice now it will get more and more insistent until finally you can't
>>ignore it. Cut way back on your exercise until you feel better. Try
>>hot or cold applications to see if they reduce the pain. You'll be
>>better off in the long run if you do.

Sound advice!


>
>Hogwash. I have symptoms like that all the time from various
>parts of my body. It's old age. Ignore it else you'll never
>get in any workouts 'cuz after 30 something always hurts.
>

This is the most ignorant thing i have seen yet on the network.
Aggravating an existing injury will only make it worse. Myself and
someone else already suggested that you switch to other exercises.
I recommended circuit weight training because it will strengthen
all the muscle groups of your body while at the same time reduce the
stress to your hip area. Consult a fitness trainer at any respectible
gym on constructing a workout program (that works around your injury!).

After about age 25 we notice that certain sports related injuries,
minor aches and pains don't go away as fast as they did when we were
teenagers. There is a BIG difference between a minor ache and a persistent
injury. You can probably work through minor aches and pains (assumming that
they are not chronic and are not noticeable after one is warmmed up).

It's not possible for me to make further recomendations without taking
into more specific details about your workout goals, diet, and life 
style and a few other things. Such information would be used by a
professional sports trainer to design a workout plan for you---these
are highly individualized. If you can afford it, its worth the money.
Local gyms may be able to direct you to someone who trains athletes.
Be sure to check their qualifications, references, etc (eg. are they
certified through any credible organization? How long have they been
sprots trainers? What kind, if any (relevant) degrees do they have?
How long have they been working out?).
If you are really serious about your workouts, you would be learning
as much as you can (in whatever time you think is practicable). Good
sources of information are magazines related to your sport and numerious
books (usually available through adds in the above mentioned magazines).

Its important that you do not try to copy a professional athletes
workout program. What you should learn is how these athletes compete
at the levels that they do, year after year, without sustaining major
injuries. What you'll find is that they all "cycle" there workouts.
The are almost innumerable ways of cycling your workouts and almost
all are effective---provided they are designed corectly.

Wayne Sonnen, Ph.D.