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"I have certain views about
what constitutes condition-
ing. I think there's a combina-
tion of making the muscles
stronger but also making
them more flexible. You have
to combine some kind of pro-
gram of stretching the
muscles out and making the
joints themselves limber,
making the joints themselves
able to go through their
potential full range of motion.
As well as making the
muscles that control those
joints strong enough to do so.
"That does not take fancy
equipment, it does not take
excessive amounts of weights.
You can go through an entire
exercise routine without any
outside equipment. You can
do it on the carpet of your
den, watching television, and
you can both make the
muscles more powerful and
stretch them out in probably
half an hour every other day
. . . because you can use your
own body weight as your
resistance. So if you do a
pushup properly you're
strengthening your arms but
you're not requiring any piece
of equipment."
Teitge says that a sound
conditioning program is more
important to older people.
"Most people, with age, lose a
little bit of flexibility . . . Peo-
ple also invariably lose mus-
cle strength with age . . . So
it becomes more critical to
have a sustaining exercise
program with age."
Teitge adds that, while he
does not advocate yoga
specifically, "the stretching
that is part of yoga has a very
rational basis," for _ those of
any age.
Another way to avoid
athletic injuries is to listen to
your body. Goldman uses
high-impact aerobics as an
example. Although low-
impact aerobics, which places
less strain on the legs, is gain-
ing in popularity, Goldman
says that large numbers of
people who suffer pain from
doing high-impact aerobics
will continue to do them, "in
the face of common sense tell-
ing them that their feet or
knees or legs are killing them
every time they do this activi-
ty. We're seeing that trend of
these people having difficult
problems to treat. Unfor-
tunately, in certain — what I
would even dare say is
unethical treatment areas —
they will be given strong
medication, injections of cor-
tisone, extensive pieces of
footware to put in their shoe,
all designed to keep them go-
ing ahead with this abusive
activity, rather than modify-
ing their activity so that they
can still get the positive part

out of aerobic exercise, which
is to get your heart rate up
and stimulate your cir-
culatory and cardio-
respiratory system. And not
abuse the poor old joints and
extremities that are doing the
work."
Teitge agrees that common
sense is important in an
athletic program. "We don't
have a large frequency of
over-use injuries, in most
kids," he points out. "Most
kids, I think, are more in-
telligent than adults when it
comes to not doing something
that's clearly going to harm
them."
Once a person is injured, he
or she must generally ap-
proach a rehabilitation pro-
gram in a similar manner to
a conditioning program, with
perseverance and patience as
the keys to success. While
both doctors agree that active
people are generally better-
motivated and more
dedicated to a rehabilitation
program, "Sometimes the
very active people are so well-
motivated," says Goldman,
"that they don't want to face
the necessity of time as part
of the healing process."
Teitge concurs. "There is a
fine line in recovering from
injuries. To be active enough
but not be too active so that
you intensify the irritation."
Goldman, who took up
bicycling after he broke a leg
while skiing, says "It's
helpful sometimes if a doctor
can suggest an alternative ac-
tivity." After missing a season
of skiing, Goldman returned
to the slopes when his leg had
fully recovered from the
injury.
Recent
technical
developments, such as full-
body CAT scans and ar-
throscopic surgery, which
often eliminates the need for
large incisions, have aided
the treatment of sports in-
juries. Further developments
depend on research. Teitge
says, "The engineering
analysis of extremities and
how they function in different
sports activities is the key to
the future of treatment.
That's very costly and also
quite exciting."
He is also interested in the
potential development of ar-
tificial body parts, such as
ligaments and cartilage,
which is "in the field of
development . . . At this point
the research is slowed by the
inability to develop materials
with mechanical properties
that match the part that
we're trying to replace."
For now, it seems that
nothing will take the place of
a standard, common-sense ap-
proach of patience in order to
avoid becoming a patient. ❑

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