Saturday, April 11, 1981-The Michigan Daily Pge 9
sports
Medicine
tackles
lnj uries
By SARAH SHERBER
He drops back for the pass, searching for an
open receiver. The quarterback spots an open
man and prepares to pass, but suddenly, before
he has time to react, the signal caller is drilled to
the turf by a massive defensive lineman. The
sound of the bone crushing tackle echoes
throughout the playing field.
This scene is repeated hundreds of times
during the football season. It is not confined to
the professional athlete or the college performer,
as youngsters playing Pop Warner and Sunday
afternoon jocks endure the same agony.
THE INJURY prone athlete, whether he or she
is a star like Bobby Orr, who continued to play
hockey despite injury to his knees, or a once a
week tennis player who suffers from tennis
elbow, has brought about development of a
specialized field of medicine. It is with these
athletes in mind that sports medicine clinics
have sprung up throughout the country and the
world.
Sports medicine in the United States is not a
specific field of health care. Rather, according to
Robert Narcessian, who is the director of the
Fitness and Sports Medicine Clinic at the John F.
Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey
and is also the co-chairperson of the Sports
Medicine Committee of the United States Olym-
pic Committee, "Sports medicine is a com-
bination of clinical and scientific discipline."
Narcessian went on to explain that the clinical
segment of sports medicine includes the general
practioner, physical therapy, orthopetics, car-
diology, athletic trainers and sports specialists.
The scientific research component consists of
physics, physiology, anatomy, nutrition and bio-
mechanics.
NARCESSIAN, THE former Brown University
track coach, emphasized that sports medicine is
not limited to the serious athlete or to those who
are already injured.
"Very few people run correctly," cited Nar-°
cessian as an example. "Few people run right
because of deficiencies or because they don't un-
derstand the mechanics. It takes 20 minutes to
teach someone to run."
The programs that Narcessian conducts
enable him to find a person's handicap and either
- correct it or teach the athlete a way to get around
it.
"WE (A SPORTS medicine team) try to show
a person who is healthy a deficiency they have so
it doesn't manifest into an injury," said Nar-
cessian.
It is the prevention of such injuries which is
also the main concern for the doctors and
trainers who tend to athletic teams. Dr. Robert
Anderson, one of the team physicians for the
Michigan football team, commented that part of
his duty as a team doctor was to conduct "some
kind of pre-physical examination so that any
problem could be corrected before the -season
starts."
ONCE AN ATHLETE is injured, rehabilitation
becomes the main concern of the trainer or
physician. For many injuries, icing the area is a
sufficient means of treatment. Others merit
some form of weight training and muscle
strengthening. It is only in the most extreme
cases, in which tissue has been damaged, that
surgery takes place.
The concept of sports medicine became
popular according to Narcessian," since the
athlete has become such a valuable com-
modity."
With this new incentive in the program, in-
novative procedures have been developed which
not only aid the athlete, but any person who suf-
fers from a muscular of skeletal injury.
ONE SUCH technique is an arthrogram, a type
of x-ray where a liquid dye is injected into a
joint. The die then forms on the tissue and allows
the radiologist to examine the damaged area.
Another method which has become in-
creasingly popular is that of the arthroscopy.
The procedure consists of making a tiny incision
into a person's joint and inserting, a small
telescope so that the doctor can actually look at
the damaged area.
While the field of sports medicine has been
refined and increased, there is still room for im-
provement. Each year athletes such as Joe
Namath, Gale Sayers and Bill Walton are forced
to retire due to injuries, but with future im-
provements in sports medicine, maybe these
careers can be prolonged.
This is the first of a two-part series on
sports medicine. Tomorrow's article will
focus on the ways in which athletes and
teams participate in available programs.
TENNIS TEAM "UNBEATABLE:"
Michigan burie
By CHUCK JAFFE
"I just can't see anyone beating that
team." Those were the words of Min-
nesota tennis coach Jerry Noyce after
his Gophers were downed 6-3 by the
12th-ranked Wolverines yesterday. The
Michigan squad used five overpowering
singles performances to clinch the
match, and Minnesota took three of the
final fourmatches to make it close.
First signles Matt Horwitch was
awesome, winning his match 6-1, 6-0, to
start the Wolverines off with a big win.
Mike Leach followed with his 13th
straight victory, as he defeated Kent
Hulgeson 7-5, 6-3. At third singles, Mark
Mees bombed Minnesota's Hakan Alm-
strom 6-2, 6-1.
"I WAS VERY confident of winning
the top three singles," said Michigan
coach Brian Eisner. "Most of my atten-
tion was focused on fourth, fifth, and
sixth. They really were the turn, and
the key, to the match."
Ross Laser needed three sets for his
victory at fourth singles. Laser took the
first set 6-2, but lost the second 3-6.
However, Laser jumped out in front in
the third set, and held on to defeat Ted
Kauffmann by a match score of 6-2, 3-6,
6-3.
At fifth singles, Tom Haney fell
behind early, losing the first set to Greg
Wicklund by a 4-6 count. He then got un-
tracked, and came on to beat Wicklund
4-6, 6-3, 6-3.
MINNESOTA's Mike Hoeger finally
gave the Gophers something to cheer
about, as he won a three set match over
Ihor Debryn, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4.
With the team competition won,
Michigan dropped two of three doubles
matches. "It's difficult to keep your in-
tensity up when the match is won," said
Eisner. "I'd say our doubles was
mediocre, at best, today."
Leach and Horwitch needed a first set
tiebreaker, and then a hardfought
second set for a 7-5 (5-4), 6-4 win.
"IN DOUBLES, we felt a little
lackadaisical," Horwitch said. "This
had been a very intense week of prac-
tice. The coach really wanted to win
this match bad. I think we might have
played better if there was still
something on the line, but we didn't
scrap and scramble like we normally
do."
"When you wrap it up, it's real hard
to get psyched for the doubles," Leach
said. "I felt flat today."
s Gophc
Second doubles Haney and Laser
were pasted by Minnesota's Alstrom
and Kauffmann, 6-1, 6-4, and Mike
Hoeger and Mark Wheaton combined to
give the Gophers their third point of the
day by downing Mark Mees and Dan
McLaughlin 7-6 (5-2), 5-7, 6-4.
ANOTHER FACTOR for the
closeness of the matches was the
weather. Throughout most of the after-
noon, the players battled cold, gusting
winds.
"The weather didn't really cooperate
today," Eisner said. "Sometimes that
can turn a match around, but I don't
think it helped or hurt either side
today."
"The wind is a neutralizing factor in
any match," Horwitch said. "It brings
the level of play down, which is why I'm
pleased with my singles play today."
"WE THOUGHT we were ready,"
Minnesota's Noyce said, "and we
thought we could take them because
they have a young team, but they came
away with a great victory."
The Wolverines square off against
Wisconsin today at 1 p.m. at the varsity
tennis courts outside the Track and
Tennis Building. Wisconsin is the last
Big Ten team to defeat Michigan, an
upset that occurred in 1978.
"We always like to play Wisconsin,"
said Horwitch, the only remaining team
member left from the '78 defeat. "We
enjoy the challenge, and hopefully we'll
come out ahead."
"We put a lot of emphasis on this
weekend," Eisner said, "and Wisconsin
is good too, so we'll play just as hard,
and hopefully better, than we did
today."
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6-3
Daily Photo by JACKIE BELL
WOLVERINE JUNIOR AND number two singles player, Mike Leach, hammers a
forehand return during yesterday's match. "I felt flat," admitted Leach, despite
winning 7-5, 6-3.
-Miller: new Blue 'sooner'
Oklahoma grid- star moves north
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By JEFF QUICKSILVER
He was Barry Switzer's top recruit.
And why not! An All-State, All Big-8
regional player of the year, he was
everybody's All-American. The list of
honors and awards he received is
Bseemingly endless. But best of all,
being born and raised in Nornam,
Oklahoma, he was well schooled in the
tradition of Sooner football.
"Clay always had a dream to return
to the university that his parents atten-
ded and play football," said Oklahoma
assistant head coach Mirv Johnson.
"We tried everything we could to get
him to play for us, but we just couldn't
deviate him from that plan."
IN ADDITION, Miller, an academic
All-American, said that Michigan's
scholastic reputation was an important
factor in his decision.
"All the universities I was interested
in - Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA,
Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Michigan -
had excellent football programs. It was
the sincerity and friendliness of the
people and coaches at Michigan, as well
as the academics at the university that
made the difference," said Miller.
Growing up in Oklahoma and being a
Sooner fan all his life, Miller added that
there was a lot of pressure from
hometown fans and alumni to play foot-
ball for Switzer. Calls from the
president of the University and
previous Oklahoma football players
were common. But, as Miller will tell
you, "I just didn't feel like staying
around. Besides, the weather gets too
hot here and I'm looking forward to
spending a winter in Ann Arbor."
HOWEVER, aside from the
academic and family concerns of
Miller, there still remains the fact that
he is an excellent football player.
Among the top 20 freshman prospects in
the United States, Sooner assistant
coach Johnson called Miller the best
lineman to come out of Oklahoma in 20
years.
"He has "great athletic ability,
strength, and quickness (4.8, 40 yard
dash) with the potential to be an ex-
cellent collegiate football player," said
Johnson.
Yet despite all of his accolades and
praise, Miller remains realistic. Vying
for the spot left vacant by Mike
Trgovac on the defensive line of the
Wolverines, Miller does pot expect to
be handed a starting role and walk into
immediate stardom.
"I JUST HOPE to move in as a
backup and gain some experience.
That's the most important thing right
now. I'm confident I'll be able to con-
tribute. If I start, well, all the better,"
said Miller.
Is there any pressure in being one of
the most highly touted freshmen in the
country?
"The only pressure I feel is that
which I put on myself," said Miller.
"Michigan has a great football
program and I'd like to help bring a
National Championship to the Univer-
sity."
With an attitude like that, Wolverine
fans should be glad to see Miller
wearing a Michigan uniform come Sep-
tember, and not, as the whole state of
Oklahoma expected, the red and white
jerseys of Switzer's Sooners.
Miller
... welcomes Ann Arbor winter
Logically, the University of
Oklahoma, a perennial national
powerhouse and winner of last season's
Orange Bowl, should have been this 6-4,
*240 pound blue chip's choice. Yet, when
the 1981 collegiate football season kicks
off this fall, Clay Miller will be sporting
the maize and blue uniform of the
University of Michigan.
WHY MICHIGAN? The answer goes
well beyond the nature of the respective
football programs.
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