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Thursday, November 29.1990 / University Daily Kansan
Even 'weekend warrior' athletes prone to accidents
Watkins' sports clinic treats many different kinds of aches and pains
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
Clark Campbell has been injured so many times that he can't easily recall each incident.
Larry Magee examines De Soto junior Kelly Hall's foot. Karen Loudon, physical therapist, observes.
A cracked vertebra. A concussion. An injured tendon in his lower leg that required surgery was definitely the worst, he said. Hip bursitis. Shoulder tendinitis. A broken wrist. Broken bones in one of his hands.
But the injuries are a small price for Campbell to pay for the fame he's gained as a world-class triathlete. A Lawrence resident and part-time University of Kansas student in exertion have been placed ninth at the world triathlon championships. Triathlons combine swimming, bicycling and running.
Campbell has been a serious athletic since he was a child. But any athlete, even a weekend warrior, is prone to a sports-related injury.
"Iinjuries are just a part of the game," Campbell said. "When I turned pro, I knew there was a risk of injury. I wouldn't trade it for money."
Every year, hundreds of KU students suffer a gamut of sports-related injuries. Since 1985, when a sports medicine clinic opened at Watkins Memorial Health Center, physicians and physical therapists there have treated more than 900 sports-related injuries.
Most injuries treated at Watkins occur because of some sort of impact — either with another player or with the ground or sports apparatus.
Watkins treats students whose collarbones and ribs have snapped against the ground after hard tackles during football games. They also treat the shredded ligaments of baseball players who catch a cleat while sliding into base, or a volleyball player's dislocated fingers.
These injuries are acute, meaning they occur suddenly. Sports physicians treat these injuries more than football players. Kins sports physician Laury Magee.
Ankles and knees rank as the most-injured. These injuries usually occur during basketball games. Football, soccer, baseball and softball are other sports that cause many acute injuries.
"Some people call them deceleration injuries," Magee said. "They're caused by a collision with somebody or with the ground."
Aches and pains
Sports such as running and swimming take their toils on athletes in football, baseball and basketball.
Runners must deal with a constant pounding to their bodies. Jogging on concrete can be especially detrimental, as it causes cushioning. Even asphalt is better than said Campbell, who tries to train on asphalt as opposed to concrete.
But any surface, even sand, can hurt runners who come from a swimming background. While training in water offers cardiovascular and endurance benefits, the low resistance of running necessitates para-legion for pouring sols while people swim.
When Campbell was 15, he suffered a stress-related fracture of a lower vertebra while jogging. He had come from a competitive swimming background, and early running workouts preparing him for triathlon competitions caught his bone structure offguard.
The stress fracture Campbell had is what sports physicians call an overuse injury. These injuries do not occur in one instant but over successive months and years of hard training.
Such overuse injuries as stress fractures, tendinitis and shin splints are incubated by an athlete's desire to train through anything. The injuries get worse with further training, and thus take longer to heal.
Magee said most overuse injuries occurred to the knees, which cushion much of the repetitive pounding from such exercises as jogging. Skiing also strains knees because pressure is placed on the joint from abnormal angles.
Treatment isn't easy
Ken Wertzberger, a Lawrence orthopedic surgeon, said that many serious athletes are accustomed to ignoring the little aches and pains that pop up during training. Because they are not treated immediately, overuse injuries often take longer to heal than acute injuries.
"The violent injuries are easier to treat." Wertzberger said. "The hallmark of getting rid of an overuse injury is that it makes something the athletes don't like to do."
To make recuperation easier, physicians often recommend another
sport, like swimming, for the athlete.
Wertzberger has operated on 200 athletes in the 10 years he has practiced medicine at his Lawrence clinic. Most of the surgery has been arthroscopy, or inserting a tiny endoscope into a joint through an incision to diagnose an injury. In many cases, Wertzberger ends up extracting cartilage that has broken off inside a joint.
Ligament injuries are tricky to repair, he said. Ligaments, the fibers that hold bones together, do not heal well when sewn together after an injury. A sprain occurs when the inflexible ligaments are stretched or torn.
The worst ligament injury, Wertzberger said, is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, which is in the middle of the knee. This is an acute injury that can have chronic consequences.
"Anterior cruciate was frequently a career-ending injury," Wertzberger said.
Danny Manning, former KU basketball player, had this injury, as did football greats Joe Namath and
Gale Savers.
Sports physicians can mend ligament tears by substituting the damaged tissue with tendons, which connect muscle tissue to bones and are much more durable than ligaments.
This modern substitution technique has given athletes with this injury a second chance at glory. Ninety percent of athletes who tear this ligament return to their sports after this surgery, Wertzberger said.
Magee said that serious athletes were not the only people who suffered injuries. A fair number of weekend warriors limp or are carried into work during their times they suffered waking part or a sport they don't work at every day.
Weekend warriors
Injuries also occur because the participant is wearing improper footwear, which leaves ankles prone to the twisting force of a bad landing.
game, so he had on the same running shoes he usually wears. Vivian jumped to catch a ball and landed crookedly on his left ankle.
Bill Vivian, Omaha senior, was playing a game of touch football last week with his in-laws in Chicago. It was an informal, scrimmage-type
"I heard a pop." Vivian said. "It immediately hurt, and it swelled up like a balloon."
Upon his return to Lawrence, Vivian was diagnosed at Watkins as having a "second-degree" ankle sprain. First-degree sprains are mild, with little ligament damage other than a pull. Second-degree sprains involve torn ligaments the worst third-degree sprains, are better to dislocation and often require corrective surgery, Magen said.
Vivian can already put weight on his sprained ankle. It is immobilized with an aircast, which allows his ankle to move forward and backward, but not side-to-side. This limited mobility will help Vivian recover more quickly because he won't lose much strength in his injured ankle.
Vivian will begin strengthening exercises as soon as he can walk without crutches and should complete therapy in six weeks, he said.
Athletes should heed warnings given by body if pain persists
Kansan staff report
Athletes who exercise should be wary of overuse injuries, which occur gradually with time and training. These can be deceiving, especially for athletes used to training despite soreness.
Larry Magee, sports physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said minor aces and soreness that usually accompany workouts could lead to bruises if an ache becomes painfully distracting, it's time to stop the activity.
"Pain is a symptom, a sign from the body that something is wrong." Magee said. "If it so is bad that it's on you, you should be exercising should be discontinued."
Athletes need to be wary of a burning sensation when working out. This could indicate a number of different injuries, either acute or chronic, and so it should be discontinued if the suspected injury begins to swell or discolor.
Regardless of whether an injury is acute or overuse, ice and heat can be used to reduce swelling and speed the healing process.
Ice should be applied immediately to an injury such as a sprain, muscle strain or contusion, Magee said. Ice slows the circulation of blood to the area and thus helps reduce swelling and pain.
The injured area should be elevated and ice should be applied for 15 to 20 minutes after the area is covered with a wet cloth. It's normal for the skin to become slightly numb during treatment.
Heat, applied with a hot water bottle, warm water soak or an electric heating pad, dilate the wound and reduce the injured area and reduces stiffness.
Heat should be applied for 20 to 30 minutes, and it should not burn the skin or reduce sensation. Heat should be warmed until all swelling has gone down.
If the injury persists despite ice or heat treatment, a physician or therapist should be consulted.
Local experts inform students about drug use in Lawrence
Kansan staff writer
By Debbie Mvers
Students in yesterday's Drugs in Society class in Robinson Center questioned three local experts about drug issues ranging from the use of certain drugs to the effectiveness of drug-sniffing dogs.
Burdel Welsh of KU police, Vivian Bliss of Legal Services for Students, and Scott Ferris, a KU police officer assigned to the unit, were involved in enforcement Unit, spoke to about 60 students.
Ferris fielded the first question by explaining the extent of drug use in Lawrence.
LSD has been used prevalently in Lawrence recently, Ferris said. Use of that
"We know that there are a lot of different narcotics going on in this town and we also know it would take about 10,000 of us to stop them," Ferys said. "We just try to keep a lid on it."
drug carries a 50 percent chance of getting a bad high, which can produce flashbacks, or recurrences of the high a user got when he or she used the drug.
Flashbacks can occur up to 10 years after LSD is used because it is not secreted from the brain.
Flashbacks can be induced by stress or alcohol and other drug use. Ferris said that could be very harmful if someone became drunk, which is why they and experienced a flashback while driving.
Welsh said that people who had experimented with drugs in the 1960s and 70s and who had gone on to have families and professional careers sometimes were discovered as drug users because they had flashbacks.
"All of a sudden they get a bad trip or failure from it, and it is really a tightening fabric."
Ferris said that casual drug use was common on campus.
He said he had seen students smoking marijuana in the side cubbyholes of Hochstetten.
"The drug community is inherently an underground kind of community." Ferris said. "I would not say that drugs run rampant at this University, but it is there."
Bliss said that under the Kansas Controlled Substances Act, possession of a hallucinogenic drug, such as LSD or marijuana, was punishable as a misdemeanor for the first offense and as a felony for the second offense. Charges of use, sale or manufacture of a hallucinogenic drug always are prosecuted as felonies.
A first-time conviction for hallucinogenic drug possession is punishable by up to one year imprisonment and a $2,500 fine. Bliss
said. A second-time conviction is punishable by up to a $10,000 fine and 10 years imprisonment.
Welsh said many of the drugs found on campus were discovered during traffic stops. Often marjiana is spotted growing in residence hall windows.
Ferris said he often received anonymous tips.
"You'll find it in the dorms; you'll find it in traffic stops," Ferris said. "There's no doubt in my mind it goes on in the student union; it's there."
When asked if out-of-state drug trafficking occurred on campus, Ferris said drugs had come to KU from Florida, California, Mexico and Colombia.
He said that all the money the U.S. government had spent to try to stop drugs coming into the country from Florida and Mexico had caused drug pushers to smuggle drugs into the United States from the West Coast.
"As long as there's such a demand and such a treat for drugs in drugs, it's going to be less for drugs to店."
He said dogs that were trained to sniff out drugs were effective.
"They don't make mistakes." Ferris said. "When you go to court and ask for a search warrant based on a dog, you've got to have a good dog."
Ferris left the students with a final thought as he asked them to call the police if they received information about drug trafficking; he insisted that they made decisions — but people die from this stuff"
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