Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Chase Utley ‘scared’ by injury, could be headed to DL
(ht.ly)
“I scare myself
and I don’t mean lightly
I scare myself
it can get frightenin’”
Read More...Chase Utley swung for the first time in batting practice Tuesday and it did not feel right. He took a second hack, then another, and one more. That is when he went to Charlie Manuel and told him his right side hurt.
“It definitely scared me a little bit,” Utley said Wednesday.
Depending on what an MRI examination Thursday in Philadelphia shows, the Phillies could be without their second baseman and top offensive ...
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1 2 >Of course, any anti inflammatory can be misused in treatment of injury. To get esophagitis from Toradol, you would have to be taking some ridiculous doses. You know how an advil overdose can inflame your stomach? Same thing.
So, the guess of the doctor in the house is that Toradol itself is not controversial. Perhaps team doctors are prescribing large and repeated dosage of Toradol which exceed by a significant amount best practices / recommended doses - if Buchholz was taking enough to get esophagitis - then that would be the problem.
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Only if you're Chuck Norris...
It seems this particular anti-inflammatory is going to become a controversial issue in sports.
If athletes are suffering because of Toradol, it's because doctors are letting them take far more than everyone knows a person should take.
The real issue is, if it is being taken like this is, turning mild inflammatory issues which should be rested into bigger ones. Pain is the body's smoke detector. We can listen to it and check if there is a fire, or pull the batteries out and move along and hope for the best.
Not to mention infecting the rest of the office.
Ah, #### those guys!
Naw, I kid. My situation now is I could just stay home and no one cares. I've worked in other situations where they assume you're malingering if you call in sick, so it gets tricky.
With modern technology, you can work from home and have access to your work PC and all your files. It's not either-or.
I rarely actually "call-in sick" anymore. I just work from home, unless I'm literally sick in bed. I worked from home for a full month-and-a-half before my last surgery.
Sure. Office drones like us have it made now. There's actually no reason our firm needs an office at all, really. The actual office and the commuting seem like a waste of time and money to me.
I'm wondering if not getting rest is a cause of later neurological issues, or if both the behavior pattern that leads to not getting rest AND later neurological issues are symptoms of something else.
My company doesn't allow this. For intellectual property reasons we cannot dial in from outside the office so if I don't come in it's a sick day or a vacation day. Working from home is not allowed.
EDIT: I hope Mrs. Idiom is OK.
The IT dept in my company is up to 60-80% WFH now. They have hotelling space or shared cubes in the office. They've cut their real estate needs by 2/3.
I think that is the future. Be in the office with your team 2 days a week, and WFH the rest. Another team shares your space, and is in a different 2 days.
My wild-ass, I AM NOT A SCIENTIST guess would be the immune system might be involved, that not allowing yourself to heal may wear it down over time. Also, recent studies have shown that intense mental activity involves a lot more energy that we previous thought, so maybe there's a connection there, too.
edit: I also hope your better half is ok and getting better. I know something happening to Mrs. Shooty fills me with terror.
Did you get married, or are you just being colloquial?
Not quite yet. Mrs. pre-Shooty is clunky to type, though.
or is it that the players should just play with pain? seeing as how they make all that $$$
teams are not gonna let their good/expensive players just rest - i've watched more elbows and shoulders destroyed because when they first started hurting, the players were either afraid to say anything - seeJD "nancy boy" drew and turning into - or the team said - like - rub some dirt on it - or even worse, injected the STEROID cortisone into the joint
and now they are treating papelbon like he's using illegal drugs?
this is such BULLSTUFF
this screeching is how religious fanatic groups like puritans (etc) get starated
No, they should be allowed to rest and recover.
teams are not gonna let their good/expensive players just rest - i've watched more elbows and shoulders destroyed because when they first started hurting, the players were either afraid to say anything - seeJD "nancy boy" drew and turning into - or the team said - like - rub some dirt on it - or even worse, injected the STEROID cortisone into the joint
It's long past time that stopped.
They've certainly given some heart attacks.
TBF, some of that was probably just excessive angina.
It's just that it hasn't been pronounced an evil one by our overlords...yet.
The main problem for me working from is that while I can view and edit files on my work PC, I can't print them at home for data security reasons (I can't connect a home printer to the office network, effectively). I guess I could get a fax machine and have someone fax documents to me at home but that seems excessive given how close I live to the office.
I rarely get sick anyway. I did have some medical issues that landed me in the emergency room last year, and stupidly went to work the next morning, just a few hours late. I didn't have any follow-up problems as a result, but it was stupid and drove (still drives) my wife crazy. I definitely would not do that again today -- work just isn't that important.
Can't you down load them onto a secure thumb drive and then print?
Non-synthetic opiates are remarkably safe. Even hardcore addicts take decades to die from high morphine consumption. Heck, they put codeine in OTC cough medicine well into the 1970's.
Advil can ruin your liver in as little as a year with overuse.
Inflammation (a very common source of pain, hence why most painkillers are actually anti-inflammatories) can also cause injuries, or prevent healing, due to the inflamed tissue rubbing against things it wouldn't normally rub against if it weren't inflamed.
So there are real legitimate reasons to use anti-inflammatories to treat injuries.
Edit: Its too bad Vioxx kills people; it was high-leverage in my recovery from a pulled hamstring, and not just from a make-the-pain-go-away point of view.
Of course not, Babe Ruth was able to take aspirin. Any drugs in common use by Ruth or Mantle era players are fine.
Any new drugs created since their times open avenues of performance enhancement denied our heros and taints their magnificent records.
If Ty Cobb were alive today he'd be disgusted that such a huge PED cheat like Bonds holds the records he does. Not because of steroids mind you, Cobb would have taken more than Bonds given the chance, his disgust would at baseball allowing players with such high melatonin levels to play at all.
Definitely not from my home PC, and even in the office thumb drives have been disabled. Very concerned about data security.
You also could print the file to a PDF, then email the PDF to yourself. Same basic idea as faxing, only the paper is digital.
Even better.
Emailing a work document to my home email account in any format is expressly prohibited. Although I have occasionally done it when there was no other alternative, it's something we can be terminated for and we are frequently reminded of that fact.
This is going to be a really tough issue, because most high level pro athletes DON'T WANT to rest. Most of them want to take that painkiller and get right back out there, primarily because they're terrified of losing their job to the next guy down the line, and in this day and age that can potentially cost them their lifetime financial security.
Now why in the hell would Ty Cobb have ever cared if his opponents were dozing off between pitches?
Does this mean I should not be popping 3-4 advil a day to help the hangover from excessive intake of alcohol?
this is one reason I still keep my blackberry. I negotiate contracts, and if on the road (or even golfing), the Blackberry is still the most dependable device to read/edit/compare two docs. (w/ tracking changes) contracts when the use of a laptop isn't practical at a particular moment in time. Plus it is still 'corporate approved'
Joey makes a good point here that didn't get any response. Sports teams, and I'm sure the NFL is by far the worst offender, regularly utilize legal but almost certainly reckless and unhealthy drugs to keep their players on the field and playing well. Toradol may be a perfectly safe drug when used in proper moderation but who believes that teams are actually exercising proper moderation in its use? So far it gets ignored or swept under the rug but at some point, like head trauma in football, it's going to blow up and everybody is going to get the details of how badly teams/athletes abuse legal means of performance enhancement/recovery/pain blocking and how it can affect their bodies over time.
Maybe I wasn't paying much attention when he was dealing with it but this is the first I've heard about Buchholz's condition being the result of Toradol use, it certainly didn't get any significant attention before.
Does this mean I should not be popping 3-4 advil a day to help the hangover from excessive intake of alcohol?
Yes.
Take aspirin if you must take something every day. At least you'll only get an ulcer.
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