Word: elbowing
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...some cases, those injuries can lead to crippling arthritis or require extensive surgery to repair. It's no longer unheard of, to name just one example, for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need a tendon transplant for an ailing elbow--an operation that used to be restricted almost entirely to major league baseball players. And orthopedic surgeons report they are under increasing pressure to offer ever more experimental surgery for younger athletes...
...total number of pitches per game, depending on the pitcher's age. Pitchers 10 and younger will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches a game. The move, designed to minimize the chances of seriously injuring a pitcher's elbow or shoulder, was based on research conducted by the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) of Birmingham, Ala. Its studies actually indicated that an even lower number of pitches--75 for children 11 to 12 years old--was ideal...
...teams that often don't restrict pitching. There's no guarantee that anyone will follow Little League's lead in counting pitches. Then the question becomes, Which will your child have longer--a nice, shiny trophy from winning a tournament or the injury he or she sustained getting it? ELBOW...
Kids who play sports like baseball and tennis risk elbow injuries from repeated throwing and hitting. The growth plate at the end of a bone is especially vulnerable: fracturing or tearing away of the bone can cause the plate to become deformed...
...fertility rate that's dropped to 1.25 children per woman-well below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable-the number of Japanese is set to peak next year and then fall rapidly to 64 million, or half the current population, by 2100. It's not just about elbow room: fewer babies mean fewer young, productive workers to keep Japan's economy afloat, while the proportional increase in the elderly population will severely strain social services. So politicians were as happy as new fathers last week when the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reported that the number...