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What is Aussie Rules Football?

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Australian Rules Football is the main sporting code played in Australia and it is big business. All the players are professionals and considerable money is involved in the game. It was first played in 1858.

The objective of Aussie Rules is to outscore the other team in total points. These points are tallied by summing the main goal (worth 6 factors) scored, and also the behinds (worth 1 factor) added up. A goal is scored by kicking [punting] the ball (comparable to a Football) through 2 upright blog posts. The ball has to come off the foot of a player. So no throwing or punching it with– it has to be kicked through. A behind is scored if the ball is touched by any individual, or is kicked through the smaller sized articles on either side of the goal messages.

The ball can be moved around the ground by either: running with it, kicking [punting] the ball, or handpassing (punching with a closed fist). Tossing or throwing the ball is not allowed..

A player running with the ball remains in open play. He may be tackled with by any person from the opposing team. A tackle with generally implies finishing up the player on the ground, like in rugby, but can be like a great ole American-style ‘hit’. If a player is tackled, he needs to make an instant effort to throw away the round (legitimately– no tossing currently). If he hangs on to the ball throughout a tackle (like as in rugby), he is considered ‘holding the ball’ and the tackler gets a free kick. Currently, on the other hand, it is illegal to deal with a player without the ball. So, if a player does get rid of the ball during a tackle, the tackler has to promptly release.

A player can kick the ball in any direction (but of course, the objective is to get it to your goal). If a player from either team marks [gets] the ball from a kick, he might take an un-obstructed kick from that spot.

The other method of passing the ball is to handpass, or punch, the ball. However unlike noting [getting] a kicked round, receiving a handpass does not give you an un-obstructed free-kick.

Australian Rules Football is the main sporting code played in Australia and it is big business. All the players are professionals and considerable money is involved in the game.

One thing that the AFL really is seen as a model around the world is the involvement of sports medicine and sports science in the way its used to get the best out of each player. Even Podiatrists in the AFL are recognized as a model of their involvement with professional sports teams.

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Managing pain after sports medicine surgery

DETROIT -A Henry Ford Hospital study published in the Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, has found that patients who underwent knee surgery and other types of sports medicine procedures could manage their pain without opioids or a minimal dosage.

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“This is a large prospective study and our hope is that non-opioid use will gain momentum and that others may tweak our protocol and use it throughout orthopedics, from joint surgery to spine surgery and other surgeries” says Vasilios (Bill) Moutzouros, M.D., chief of Sports Medicine, a division of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the study’s lead author, “We hope that we are helping to change practices not just in sports medicine surgery but in all surgery.”

The purpose of the prospective study was to determine whether postsurgical pain following common sports medicine procedures could be managed effectively with a nonopioid multimodal analgesic protocol that relies more on non-steroid and anti-inflammatory medicine. It included 141 patients who underwent surgery between May and December 2018 for ACL reconstruction, shoulder and rotator cuff repairs or a torn knee meniscus. The study is the first in a series by Henry Ford researchers examining the issue.

Researchers found that 45 percent of patients had low levels of pain that was effectively managed by the regimen. Drowsiness was the only side effect reported by patients. All 141 patients were satisfied with how their post-surgery pain was managed by their doctor.

Even though patients were prescribed oxycodone as part of their regimen, none used it for pain control. Researchers say the regimen appeared to be essentially multiplicative, alleviating the need for patients to take the oxycodone.

Patients who required opioids were more likely to have a history of anxiety/depression and reported higher pain scores than those who didn’t need to take them.

“This kind of research has the potential to decrease opioid use in the general population as we find that many patients who abuse opioids started using them after a surgery and got hooked on them. It starts with the more common surgeries. By eliminating surgical opioid use, we are contributing to the reduction in opioids, which helps decrease dependence,” says Kelechi Okoroha, M.D., a Henry Ford sports medicine physician and a study co-author.

Dr. Toufic Jildeh, a study co-author and administrative chief resident in orthopedics at Henry Ford, says sports medicine physicians can “play a direct role in improving pain management and decreasing opioid prescribing.”

“There are currently no protocols that completely eliminate opioid use,” he says. “This study strongly suggests that eliminating opioids postoperatively is actually possible.”

Prior Henry Ford studies that focused on perioperative pain control and minimizing post-operative pain and opioid consumption after sports surgery led researchers to better understand risk factors that contribute to postoperative pain.

“It’s a practice changing study,” Dr. Moutzouros says. “This type of research allows physicians to look at how we manage pain differently in the post-surgical environment. It allows us to change our practices and become safer. What we’re trying to do is support each individual patient and reassure them that we are going to prescribe little if any opioids for their pain control to mitigate or eliminate a potential for addiction.”

Press release from Henry Ford Health System

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World Athletics releases timetable for postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games released

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For the very first time in Olympic history, the women’s as well as males’s marathon running events will both be held throughout the Closing Event at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the upgraded athletics schedule shows.

Inclusion of the marathon medal presentations in the Closing Ceremony will cap the 10-day athletics programme unveiled today, which follows the timetable previously announced for the 32nd Summer Olympic Games prior to their postponement in March.

The programme commences on Friday 30 July, 2021 with the opening round of the men’s 3000m steeplechase and concludes on the final day of the Games, Sunday 8 August, with the men’s marathon in Sapporo, capital of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. In between, competition will be spread over 16 sessions at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium.

Athletics figures prominently in both of the Games’ ‘Super Saturdays’, with three finals – the men’s discus throw, women’s 100m and the inaugural mixed 4x400m relay – scheduled for 31 August. Another seven athletics titles will be decided on Saturday 7 August, among 34 event finals scheduled for that day, the highest single day number during the Games. ‘Golden Sunday’ on 31 July, will include 25 medal events in all, capped by the men’s 100m final.

As announced in October, Sapporo will host the marathons and race walks as part of a wide range of measures taken by Tokyo 2020 organisers in consultation with the IOC and international federations to mitigate the effects of the high temperatures which may occur in Tokyo.

The qualification principles remain unchanged with athletes able to qualify through entry standards and then the World Athletics World Rankings.

Athletes who have already met the entry standard since the start of the qualification period in 2019 remain qualified and will be eligible for selection by their respective Member Federations and National Olympic Committees, together with the other athletes who will qualify within the extended qualification period.

Due to the uneven training and competition opportunities around the world during the coronavirus pandemic, World Athletics announced on 7 April that the qualification period (for all events) was suspended from 6 April to 30 November 2020.

Press release from World Athletics

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The Fall from Grace of Lance Armstrong

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In 2008, Lance Armstrong came back from retirement life. He continued to brush off doping claims and he informed ESPN he was prepared to have to train harder to remain to compete at an elite level at the age of 37. His very first race back in January 2009, the ‘Tour Down Under’ in South Australia. Of the 127 cyclists that finished the race, Armstrong completed a lackluster 27th.

Regardless of having a hard time in different races– and also still evading claims that he never ever competed in a Tour de France while clean from drugs– Armstrong decided to take part in the 2009 race. Armstrong came in third that year. He was 38 and also had actually been far from professional biking for three years.

Ahead of the 2010 Tour de France, Armstrong stated it would certainly be his last race. Around this time, his previous USA teammate Floyd Landis sent emails to cycling officials describing his use of performance enhancing drugs while racing for the US Postal Service team. Landis also charged Armstrong as well as various other colleagues of doing the very same.

“I want to clear my conscience,” Landis informed ESPN at the time. “I don’t want to belong to the problem anymore.” Still rejecting allegations and declaring there was no proof, Armstrong took part in the 2010 Scenic tour de France months after those Landis emails, coming in 23rd place. Armstrong couldn’t avoid the allegations even when retired. More of his former teammates began to change their silence and in 2011, in a sneak peek of the evidence they will ultimately give versus him in the USA Anti-Doping Agency’s case.

In October 2012, a USADA report naming Armstrong left no question he doped throughout a lot of his professional career. He didn’t dispute the situation, was stripped of all success from August 1998 forward and also ultimately received a life time ban from biking. Ultimately, Armstrong admitted publicly in an meeting with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. He admitted to doping for every Tour de France he competed in and also won. In April 2018, the lengthy legal roadway ended for both Armstrong and also Landis when they got to a negotiation in Landis’ government whistleblower case, which was sought by the U.S. Division of Justice.

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BMX Bikes

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BMX bikes are a special type of low bike, with smaller wheels than regular, that can be made use of for auto racing. They are made to be extremely lightweight yet additionally extremely durable, along with structured for speed. They are also recognized for being less complicated to execute tricks with than regular bikes.

BMX stands for bicycle motocross, which refers to the origin of the sporting activity: kids saw motocross races on the TV in the ‘70s and also wanted to imitate them. Since they had no motorcycles of their own, they used their bikes to race around comparable dirt tracks to the ones they had actually seen. Today the sport is significant for being among the few sports that is taken part in virtually specifically by the under-10s. Although there are a few older professional BMXers, a lot of good ones carry on to various other cycling or motorcycling sporting activities.

Among children today, BMXers stay among the most prominent kinds of bikes about, even if they do not complete in competitors, and also BMX publications are several of the biggest-selling hobbyist publications. This was a shock to numerous, as the sport was thought about pretty much dead in the ‘80s as well as early ‘90s, just to undergo a significant revival in the mid-‘90s that is still going on now.

BMX is now one of the series of severe sporting activities like skateboarding and snowboarding, as well as comparable methods can be executed with the bikes to the ones the boarders do. The sporting activity of Freestyle BMX was created to enable BMXers to focus on doing techniques in skate-parks rather than racing, and also has actually considering that probably grown out of the popularity of BMX competing altogether– this is the style that one of the most well-known BMX bicycle riders, Mat Hoffman and Dave Mirra, contend in.