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Archive for March, 2008

Brace knee skiing

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Insider: Benching DiPietro took guts
Newsday - first day of free agency but figured to make a big impact as a two-way winger on the checking line before he blew out a knee Sillinger is walking on crutches and has a brace attached to his left hip to keep it in place as he moves about. Sillinger
Source: www.newsday.com

Heat’s Wright undergoes successful surgery
Miami Herald - The surgery repaired a meniscal tear of the lateral joint of his left knee, and was performed at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables. Wright, who averaged 7.9 points and 5.0 rebounds in 43 games this season, is expected to be in a straight-leg brace for
Source: www.miamiherald.com

Notes: Valentin returns to new haunts
New York Mets - He’s got a bum knee, a brace that restricts his movement and, in all his 38-plus years — on the planet and 14 years as a professional — he has played first base for three — count ‘em — big league innings. The only drawback to his first-baseman
Source: newyork.mets.mlb.com

Knee support brace

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Highline 10, Centralia 0
Chronicle - They definitely had people step up that we didn’t expect,” said Viggers. “The Moore-Porter girl didn’t even start, and then she comes out there with this big knee brace on, and steps out and hits a few 3s. “The Stickney girl must weigh at
Source: www.chronline.com

FCC New Media Cross-Ownership Rule about to Go into Effect
HuntingtonNews.Net - Our motivations are less Olympian and our methodology far simpler—we generously ask big media to sit on Santa’s knee our way and tell us to keep on doing what we’d been doing, except more lavishly or (2) start to fear for our jobs and brace
Source: www.huntingtonnews.net

Lakers coach Jackson wary of Clippers
Los Angeles Daily News - foot hasn’t healed sufficiently, according to Jackson, so he will wear a protective walking boot for at least an additional week. Andrew Bynum continues his recovery from a left kneecap injury. He was spotted at practice without a knee brace
Source: www.dailynews.com

Spring Training Blog: March 12
ESPN.com - Ailing Florida Marlins right-hander Sergio Mitre was examined today by a specialist who determined surgery is not needed. Mitre’s agent says orthopedic surgeon James Andrews reaffirmed an earlier diagnosis that Mitre has minor inflammation of the
Source: sports.espn.go.com

Pac-10 title on line for No. 3 UCLA
Miami Herald - Darren Collison wasn’t his usual force driving UCLA’s offense because he was overcoming a sprained left knee that had required wearing a brace. But he’s in high gear now, averaging 16 points in his past four games. Stanford’s Brook Lopez had 13 points
Source: www.miamiherald.com

Red Sox place Schilling on 60-day DL
Rotoworld.com - Visits to Dr. Andrews often involve surgery, but a recent MRI revealed no structural damage. Leinart played most of his college career with a bulky knee brace and had tendinitis in it from time to time. The meeting appears to be precautionary for
Source: www.rotoworld.com

Fantasy News
FOXSports.com - News: Hossa (knee) is indeed out for Wednesday night’s game versus Buffalo, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Impact Wearing a brace, Hossa worked out off the ice Friday while his teammates ran through a practice for their game against Ottawa
Source: msn.foxsports.com

Hammonds Suffers Broken Wrist
WLTX.com - suffered a broken hand and a hip injury earlier this season, causing him to miss five games and wear a protective brace on his hand for 12 games. Fellow senior Sam Perry and freshman Demontez Stitt also have missed games following arthroscopic knee
Source: www.wltx.com

Bledsoe knee brace

Friday, March 14th, 2008

‘Hurting’ guard watched Herd lead slip away
Charleston Daily Mail - After taking a crucial charging foul despite wearing a huge brace to protect his torn ACL After injuring his right knee yet again and having to be helped to the bench with 8:50 remaining
Source: www.dailymail.com

Topics: NL East Division
New York Daily News - Jose Valentin sees that the door is starting to open, and hopes to kick it in despite the cumbersome brace on his surgically repaired right knee Jair Jurrjens is making it hard for the Atlanta Braves to keep him out of the starting rotation.. “I
Source: www.nydailynews.com

Thrashers fall to Panthers in OT
Atlanta Journal Constitution - But as he unhooked his knee brace after the game, Kovalchuk took responsibility for the penalty. And the loss. “I think we played a pretty good road game,” he said. “We battled hard. We scored a couple goals on the power play. It was just a bad
Source: www.ajc.com

Finding Energy All Around Us
Time - or fashionable walking around with Max Donelan’s invention strapped to your knee. The bulky 3.5-lb. (1.6 kg) gadget “is not that pleasant,” says Arthur Kuo, a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, who co-wrote an article on the brace
Source: www.time.com

Glenn Dorsey (DT)
NFL - Auburn (10/20) Had to wear a huge brace on his right knee and left the Alabama game (11/03) briefly in the second quarter when he re-injured his knee Sat out most of the Mississippi clash (11/17) with a sore lower back. Copyright NFLDraftScout.com
Source: www.nfl.com

Lo Duca may catch tomorrow
The Washington Times - I’m not wearing a knee brace,” he said. “I’m just going to let it go. I’m doing everything. I’m not trying to protect it. I’m a firm believer [if] you protect things, it ends up being a little fragile.
Source: www.washingtontimes.com

UConn women rally around fallen stars
Danbury News-Times - Greene has not played since tearing the anterior cruciate ligament and lateral collateral ligament in her right knee Dec. 17 But each time you do something new you walk without your brace on, I’m looking forward to running. So you just have to
Source: www.newstimes.com