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- 311: Hemophilia
- ... the arms and legs soft tissue area is frequent and normally not serious. These bruises usually do not require treatment. As the child gets older, it will have more contact with dangerous activities, such as sports, and will then have more periods of bleeding. Deep muscle bleeding is common. When deep muscle bleeding occurs, the person may be reluctant to use the limb and may become irritable. As the child becomes ... but recent advancements in the way that hemophilia is treated has allowed people to live happier and more active lives. But people with this disease still have a number of things they cannot do. Contact sports are a no no, and a lot of strenous physical activities are also not a good idea. Unlike a lot of other genetic diseases, people with hemophilia can really enjoy and get into life more ...
- 312: Peoples Lives
- ... is dead. Apparently he stuck around late at night to watch the news, then called me first thing in the morning. Stunned, I turned around and repeated the words to my mother. While never a sports fan, she knew who Ayrton Senna was practically as well as she knew my name. Her always happy face turned the same pale color mine was. My father, who could really care less about my sports enthusiasm, cam up to us and asked what in the world happened. To my great surprise, he took the situation very close to heart. Him and my mom both knew how much I was into ...
- 313: Unconventional Medicines
- ... do not practice these days. Hydrotherapy involves using different water temperature and pressure to help heal many things such as sprains, headaches, and even pneumonia. It is usually accompanied by massage, and used often in sports. Imagery is a type of therapy in which the patient imagines that they are being healed, and before long, they will feel better. For example, if a patient had a bad sunburn on their back ... homeostasis in the body for longer periods of time. (Galem,1997) Acupuncture can be used to treat many conditions including migraines, asthma, bursitis, tendonitis, menstrual pain, aid in weight loss and quitting smoking, back pain, sports injuries, and much, much more. It is a very well known type of therapy, and its possibilities are almost endless. The use of major alternative medicines is increasing in areas where they remain inferior to ...
- 314: Marijuana
- ... the number one experimental illegal drug. Everyday thousands of people worldwide are doing the right thing by refusing marijuana. These people know that if they took marijuana they can lose friends, get kicked out of sports teams, get in trouble with their parents, get kicked out of school, etc. These are some of the things that can happen when you decide to take marijuana. And exactly the opposite can happen when ... marijuana can immediately lead to loss of coordination in a humans body. These are other immediate affects or signs of use: loss of motivation and unusual fears of things. Bibliography: Rodney G. Peck, Drugs and Sports, 1992 The Rosen Publishing Group, New York The Britannica Encyclopedia, Volume 4, New York, 1996
- 315: Impact Of Media
- ... s product is better than their competitor's product. People are bombarded with this every day from different companies, brands and products. It=s hard to say if Nike would do so well without using sports celebrities to help them make it so that consumers of sports equipment will think of anything but Nike. It may be said however that whoever has the most money can have the most speech. In the beginning of the United States birth, opposing forces stood on ...
- 316: Major League Baseball Needs A
- Major League Baseball Needs a Salary Cap A salary cap in pro sports is the amount of money every team in a league can spend on all of the players on its roster in one year. Major League Baseball does not have a salary cap. The reason for ... November 1998, natl. Ed: C2 Fizel, John. Baseball Economics. Connecticut: Praeger, 1996. Weiner, Richard. Williams Resigns with the Yankees for Less. USA Today 25 November 1998, natl. Ed: C1 Worisnop, Richard L. The Business of Sports. CQ Researcher Vol. 5, No. 6 (1995): 123-130.
- 317: October Sky
- ... rocket technology, but actually try and do it himself. Homers effort to make the football team as a stepping stone to getting a college scholarship showed his courage and determination. Although he failed in sports, he quickly realized that the field of science and rocketry could offer him an even better opportunity to build an exciting, satisfying future. Miss Riley's statement influenced Homer to urge for a college scholarship ... Homer greatly. He didn't want to believe that he was living in a town where coal was their obsession. He wanted to change the way of the town where every single person without a sports scholarship always turned out to be a coal-miner. The desire to change the way of his town, as well as to become a rocket scientist, urged him to go to college. When Homer was ...
- 318: Steroids
- ... hormones are testosterone, the natural male sex hormone, and estrogen, the natural female sex hormone. Most of scientists research shows that most steroid use is by high school athletes trying to get into college. Most sports activities are weight lifting, power lifting, and body builders are the primary steroid users. Over 50% of male and 10% of female bodybuilders report using steroids. Some side affects to using steroids for men is ... to look more like a man. Some studies show that the only reason why athletes use steroids is to help stay injury free, to heal, to make themselves look better and to help in their sports. The amount of testosterone that the body makes is very small amounts. Males have twenty to sixty times the testosterone than females. Large amounts of testosterone are needed three times during a mans life ...
- 319: Sickle Cell Anemia
- ... can happen as early as a one month old as a baby. It can hurt a person really bad because it causes them to not be able to do many things like can't play sports, and things that gets your heart pumping because if the red blood cells gets clogged up it can causes a stroke because oxygen can't flow. Most Americans who have sickle cell anemia are of ... blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to other parts of the body. My suggestion for dealing with this problem is to go to the doctor to get an examination if you play any sports or go for a jog or run and experiment any difficulty breathing. If you don't have trouble breathing, maybe if you feel dizzy or feel like you about to blackout when you do something ...
- 320: Drug Abuse
- ... aerosols, and solvents), these are very dangerous substances to inhale, sometimes causing permanent brain damage. Are messages not getting through to the kids of the future that drugs lead to a dead end in life. Sports stars, which are role models for today's youth are constantly being caught with illicit substances. One case in point is the NBA's rookie of the year, 76ers guard, Allen Iverson was recently arrested for possession of a handgun and marijuana, is this the kind of person we really want our kids looking up to. Being at the top has its price, which many actors and sports stars seem to take as a free right to abuse drugs and get away with it. Drugs are a plague on a society that already has enough problems on its hands. Overdoses are now filling ...
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