THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
why women are more susceptible to men in ACL injuries.
All of these could play a role into ACL injuries, but at the moment there is no clear answer.
Dr. Jeff Randall at OrthoKansas has performed dozens of knee surgeries over his 16 seasons working for Kansas Athletics.
THE SURGEON
Dealing mainly with knee injuries in the Kansas program, Randall been on hand for many of the surgeries the women's basketball team suffered including Davis' on March 27.
Randall is meticulous in his preparation, making sure all the necessary precautions are taken before going into surgery.
"Typically before the surgery I plan the day before," Randall said. "I always see what people are doing. What people need to
think about in the operating in that."
Randall usually relies on an autograph technique during surgery where he takes muscle from the hamstring and then creates a new ACL in the player's knee.
There have been huge strides in the Sports Medicine field, but Randall believes the more awareness and training available, the less prevalent of a problem ACL injuries will become in the near future.
Randall said that the mark is only 2.5 to 3 centimeters wide so most of the time the mark can barely be seen on a players skin.
"The less invasion you're doing going in, the easier it is on the athlete coming out," Randall said.
"I think you can always do more," Randall said. "There's new things every year and there are more people studying it and figuring it out and fine tuning it. I think as much as we've done
Turner came to Kansas as a graduate student after finishing up her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
more can be done."
THE PERSON ON HAND
After two years training the swimming and diving team, she moved over to the Jayhawks women's basketball team five years ago.
Turner worked with many of the injured players on the Kansas roster including Davis, Goodrich and Jackson on not only their ACL problems, but also any other ailments.
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"Every time I have an injury I go back and re-look at what we do," Turner said. "There's always something to be learned from it."
Turner realizes after helping through all of these ACL injuries that there's more to the women's basketball mindset than just getting them through the physical
Davis has worked hand-inhand with Turner and they both understand the physical and mental tolls these injuries take on the players.
toll.
Valgus Knee or "knock knee" is a term used to describe what happens to a woman when they suffer a non-contact ACL injury. In Dr. Hewett's findings of his Nov. 10 piece named, "Why women have an increased risk of ACL injury." His results indicated that valgus torque is controlled primarily by hip torque during a two-footed landing, but more by the change in the ground reaction force during single-legged tasks. Altering and enhanced training may increase leg control and decrease hip and knee valgus torques in females.
Turner works with each individual player on what they need to do to come back as close as possible to full strength after an injury.
"She's so positive," Davis said. "Even when I'm having a bad day, she's still positive. She let's me be mad and she just keeps working with me. She wants me to get back from this."
The main thing Turner works on with the players, when they have ACL injuries, is how to jump correctly because of the difference in anatomy between men women.
VALGUS KNEE
Turner said herself and strength and conditioning coach Andrea Hudy work together to teach the girls how to jump properly.
Turner realizes she can better help these players through this trying process with a calming personality.
but it's OK to be angry, it's OK to vent with me and I'm here with you to get you through it."
"Everybody has a different range of how they handle it. Some are better than others, some can find the silver lining in the situation better than others san," Turner said. "There's definitely days and I tell them all that there will be moments this is horrible,
MOVING FORWARD
12 weeks have passed since Davis' knee injury, which puts her at about the halfway point to when she can see the court again.
On that February day, Davis left the game carted off on a gurney, with tears streaming down her face. Since then she's been active with the team.
Throughout their NCAA tournament run she was right there with the group. She could be seen often standing underneath the basket, talking talking to every forward about what they needed to do to improve. At some points she even cracked a smile, even though she was missing some of the fun.
"If you tear an ACL and get through it," Davis said. "You can be so much stronger and I think that's what I'm looking forward to being able to be a stronger person afterwards and knowing I'll be a totally different player and a totally different love for the game."
Davis still has a long way to go in the process of recovering, she knows the help and people around her will help her make full recovery for the start of the season in November.
- Edited by Max Lush
RECOVERY PROCESS
1. After the surgery Dr. Randal instructs patients to be in the immobilizer for two weeks.
2. Then Turner works with the players and switch to a functional brace until the six-week mark, all day, every day. Turner does this so their range of motion gets better and swelling will be removed from the knee. At this time Turner is working on basic strength.
3. At the 12-week mark more Turner tries to get as much strength back into their knee as possible. She also wants to get more strength around the knee, especially with hamstrings and quadriceps. During this period, Turner works on basic running, landing mechanics, real easy jogging, cutting and jumping.
4. The goal for Turner is to have the player ready to go at the 6-month mark so they can participate in full contact drills and be back with the team. Turner also continues to work on landing mechanics and doing some different rotational drills to adapt to the rotational force once again.
Kansas Athletic TrainerAnn Turner
BASEBALL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens leaves federal court in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Clemens' lawyer opened his defense of the former pitching star by telling jurors that evidence purportedly showing Clemens used steroids was manipulated by his former strength coach, Brian McNamee.
Audio and video clips heard in Clemens'trial
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prosecutors played audio and video clips Monday of Roger Clemens making a host of statements in his congressional deposition that the government will try to establish were lies.
"I haven't done steroids or growth hormone," Clemens' deep, booming voice said on the audiotape of his 2008 congressional deposition.
"Let me be clear: I have never used steroids or HGH", he said in the videotape of the congressional hearing a few days later, referring to human growth hormone.
Clemens, a former pitcher who won seven Cy Young Awards, is accused of lying when he made those denials to Congress.
The snippets of the hearing included the now-famous line from Clemens that his friend and former teammate, Andy Pettitte, "misremembers" a conversation in which, according to Pettitte, Clemens acknowledged using HGH.
There was also an embarrassing exchange from that hearing, when Clemens reiterated his claim that he never had detailed discussions with strength coach Brian McNamee about HGH. A congressman then asks whether Clemens had called McNamee on the
phone after his wife told Clemens she had taken HGH.
Barnett also testified Monday that the committee had considered skipping the hearing and just issuing a report based on the depositions of Clemens and others. Barnett said that he asked Clemens' lawyers if it would be fair to conclude the investigation without a hearing. Later, Barnett said, the lawyers responded that Clemens thought it would be unfair to do so.
"That very much is detailed conversation," Clemens replied in the clip, appearing to say that they had such a discussion.
The former pitcher's perjury trial resumed Monday with the testimony of Phil Barnett, who, as majority staff director for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was the lead questioner at the 2008 deposition. Barnett said the committee invited Clemens to appear because it wanted to determine whether the Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball could be relied upon as accurate.
That report said that Clemens has used steroids and HGH, which the pitcher vehemently denied.
The prosecution also played other audio clips of Clemens from the deposition. The jury heard Clemens say that he was injected with vitamin B12 and the local anesthetic lidocaine by former strength coach McNamee, that he had no idea that Sen. George Mitchell wanted to speak with him for a report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, and that he never attended a party at former player Jose Canseco's house.
That could be an issue in the trial, because Clemens lawyer Rusty Hardin has questioned whether his client was really
testifying voluntarily. Hardin has argued that Clemens knew he'd be subpoenaed if he had refused the committee's invitation.
Clemens arrived in court wearing a blue short-sleeve dress shirt, red tie, and dark pinstripe suit. He was approached by a man, pulling one of the wheeled suitcases common among lawyers at the courthouse, who said "Good luck," and shook his hand.
All of those claims are listed as false statements in the indictment against Clemens.
"Thank you buddy," Clemens replied.
"Go Yankees," the man said as he walked away.
OLYMPICS
Missiles to be fired from roofs for opening ceremony
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Ministry of Defence warned residents that surface-to-air missiles could be stationed on their rooftops during the London Olympics, Sunday, April 29.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some London residents are getting troops and surface-to-air missiles on their rooftops for the Summer Olympics.
British security officials identified potential sites for the missiles on Monday and announced plans for security tests during the week.
The potential sites include Lexington Building in Tower Hamlets, the Fred Wigg Tower in Waltham Forest, Blackheath Common, Oxleas Wood, the William Girling Reservoir and Barn Hill in Epping Forest.
News of one of the sites leaked out over the weekend when a journalist who lives in one of the buildings found a flyer notifying residents of the plan.
Around 700 people living a Whelan's building in Bow about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from London's Olympic Stadium have been contacted and warned that the weapons and about 10 troops are likely to be based at the site for around two months. London is hosting the Summer Olympics from July 27-Aug.12.
"From the few people I've spoken to, and the security we have here, they're not happy about it," said Brian Whelan. "I don't think it needs to be here at all."
In the leaflet, the defense ministry said the venue offered an uncluttered "view of the surrounding areas and the entire sky above the Olympic Park."
Troops plan to conduct tests this week at the building to determine
if the high velocity surface-to-air missiles will be stationed on a water tower attached to the site's roof.
Britain has previously confirmed that up to 13,500 troops are being deployed on land, at sea and in the air to help protect the Olympics alongside police and security guards. Typhoon fighter jets, helicopters, two warships and bomb disposal experts will be a part of the security operation.
"The majority of this exercise will be played out in full view of the public and I hope that it will have a secondary effect of reassuring the British people that everything possible is being done to ensure this will be a safe and secure Olympic and Paralympic
Games," said Defense Secretary Philip Hammond.