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RICE & MICE: ACL injuries
Last week I wrote about my experience as an athlete that had an anterior cruciate ligament injury. This week I’d like to cover the importance of the ACL and why the mere mention of an ACL injury strikes fear into many athletes. The ACL is one of the four major ligaments of the knee. The medial and lateral collateral ligaments are located on the inside and outside portion of the knee, respectively. The oft-injured ACL and its neighbor the posterior cruciate ligament are located inside the knee joint. Even though ACL injuries are not thought of as a common hockey …
Decisions, Decisions…
The Lulz feature was originally inspired by the lolcats site but features hockey pictures with funny, quirky, ironic or just plain mean captions. This feature should run weekly on Mondays, just to try to make your Monday a little brighter.
Hitting the posts: 01.15.11
“Hitting the posts” is a weekly roundup of links to hockey stories from across the web. If you have any suggestions for articles that we should use, hit us up here. Jody Shelley is having a good week :: Goal, Fight Sean O’Donnell’s big hit :: KuklasKorner Matt Walker struggles in debut :: Philly Sports Daily Jeff Carter is quietly having a great year :: Broad Street Hockey Value of goaltending :: SportsNet Naming the Hartnell – Briere – Leino line :: Philly Sports Daily Aggregated NHL Power Rankings :: From the Rink Do’s and Don’t for GMs on the …
Spectrum Memories: A view from above
To celebrate my 25th year of hockey fandom, I will occasionally step into the way-back machine and write about events in the Flyers’ past. For the balance of the season, I will be dipping into the well to ruminate about some things related to my love of the Philadelphia Flyers, and in general about the fan experience as a youngster. This is the fifth in the series of Spectrum Memories. As I’ve established in previous posts, I was a nosebleed dweller at the Spectrum throughout my youth. That was the deal if my parents were going to front the tickets for a whole season. Still, there were …
Five Reasons I Love the Flyers: Dan
Dan is a huge Flyers and overall hockey fan, contributing to The Home of Hockey blog every Friday, as well as its’ forum. You can follow him on Twitter. 1. In My Blood Growing up, Flyers hockey was always a part of my life. I grew up watching the Flyers on PRISM & Philly 57 with my dad and playing hand hockey during intermission. He took me to games at the Spectrum every so often, and seeing the game live definitely kept me hooked. He told me stories about the glory days in the ‘70s. As I grew up, my …
RICE & MICE: My ACL injury
Since I started writing for Flyers Faithful, a lingering thought has been in the not-so-distant depths of my mind to write about ACL injuries. It was not so long ago that a torn anterior cruciate ligament of the knee was a death sentence of sorts for most athletes. It is an injury that is near and dear to my heart, or knee, rather. This will be a multi-part contribution as I am able to give medical, surgical and patient perspectives on this particular injury. I’ll start with the patient perspective. It was a gorgeous, albeit hot, Saturday in May in 1998. …
Incoming!! Clear the Deck!
The Lulz feature was originally inspired by the lolcats site but features hockey pictures with funny, quirky, ironic or just plain mean captions. This feature should run weekly on Mondays, just to try to make your Monday a little brighter.
RICE & MICE: Hip pointers
A hip pointer usually results from a direct blow to either the outside edge of the pelvis (the iliac crest), or the outer aspect of the hip (greater trochanter of the femur) and is an extremely painful injury. The bone and overlying muscle are often bruised, and the pain can be intense and even be felt when, laughing or coughing. Bleeding usually occurs around the front and side of the hip, into the abdominals and gluteus muscles. This bleeding causes swelling and makes movement of the hip very painful. Some players can develop a hematoma, or “pocket of blood” in …
How To (Not) Stop a Breakaway
PS – Hartnell down! (@SethDH on Twitter) The Lulz feature was originally inspired by the lolcats site but features hockey pictures with funny, quirky, ironic or just plain mean captions. This feature should run weekly on Mondays, just to try to make your Monday a little brighter.