Announcement at RacerX Online regarding a new cooperative program between Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN and Spring Creek MX Park in Millville, MN to study motocross injuries – specifically concussion.
For more detail read the entire post at the link above, but here is an excerpt:
In an unprecedented move Spring Creek MX Park, home to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fitness and Health'
Motocross head injury study launched
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Fitness and Health, Racing
Spinal injury PSA with Magoo, Bailey, Fonseca, and James
May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Fitness and Health, Profiles in Riding, Safety
Here’s the spinal cord injury Public Service Announcement that Steve Bauer posted on Facebook. Click here or click the image to view. It’s an MP4 (Quicktime) video file.
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Tim Ferry on training and racing until you’re 40
October 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health, Profiles in Riding
33-year-old Tim Ferry is not the oldest rider ever selected for a Motocross of Nations team (Stephan Everts was 33 when he rode his last event in 2006. He won both his motos although Belgium finished 2nd.) I’m sure he’s not even the oldest to be on a winning team — the average age of [...]
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Mesoblast stem cell treatment heals severe breaks in weeks
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
Australian newspaper The Age reports in “Broken leg bones healed in stem cell first” that a trial for new stem cell therapy has produced some remarkable results in healing the most serious kinds of fractures. The trial included nine patients with severe leg fractures, many unable to walk and spending up to 41 months waiting [...]
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Impact sports increase bone density in aging athletes
August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
This 2007 article from Medical News Today, Impact Sports Increase Bone Strength In Senior Athletes, reports on a study conducted on 298 athletes at the 2005 Senior Olympics in Pittsburgh. Findings were reported at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
The study used a health-history questionnaire and ultrasound Bone Mass Density [...]
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Exercise and sleep critical to brain health
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
My Chicago-based friend (and high-powered consultant to captains of industry) Jim McGee recently reviewed the book Brain Rules by John Medina. It’s worth reading Jim’s review here. You wouldn’t normally see a post like this on a motorcycle blog, but one of my main interests is the fitness and health of the aging athlete (and [...]
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Sittting on my butt, going nowhere fast, I can still get in shape.
May 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
I just picked up a Lemond Revmaster spinner bike for my exercise program. I got it from a fire sale – literally. They guy I bought it from had his house catch fire and the bike was damaged in the fire. It’s pretty smoked up and some of the plastic is melted, but it seemed [...]
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Super Hunky Fighting Cancer. Don’t You Be Next.
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
Reported on the Cousin Weedy Y! forum (and not independently confirmed,) moto-icon and super journalist Rick Sieman (aka Super Hunky) is undergoing radiation treatment for cancer. Almost everyone knows who Rick is from his years at the helm of Dirt Bike magazine. If you are among the tiny minority that don’t know Rick, he’s was [...]
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Don’t Make My Mistake With Your Back Injury
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
I broke my lower back (T11, T12, L1) about 10 years ago in an auto accident. Thanks to a mis-diagnosis by the rent-a-doc at the local two-bit trauma center and my own stubborness and stupidity, I did not get proper medical treatment for more than six (6) months and was left with a permanently damaged [...]
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Staying Healthy as an Aging MX Racer
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Fitness and Health
Just got back from my first full physical in a number of years. By full, I mean I had a complete blood workup, a bone scan, body fat measurement, and VO2 max stress test. The good news is I’ve stayed pretty healthy despite my pathetic exercise regimen. I have good base fitness for a guy [...]
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