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." 's, 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 4TTENTION ALL RECIPIENTS OF ?ea erobip Utxue Please return your survey response as soon as possible. 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? 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