UVa Football Team….be careful of massages!

Posted by Francesco on August 27th, 2008 15 Comments

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The other night I heard that the UVa football team has in house masseuses/chiropractors that work on the team as part of their training.  This isn’t that rare I think.  Most schools, especially with great sports programs have mini physical therapy centers solely dedicated to their athletes.

ANYWAYS, so the NY Times reports that neck manipulations have a high-correlation to people getting strokes.  Yes, very scary indeed.  It seems a

technique called cervical spinal manipulation, involving a forceful twisting of the neck, could damage two major arteries that lead through the neck to the back of the brain. Strokes in people under age 45 are relatively rare, but these cervical arterial dissections are a leading cause of them.

In light of this weekend’s upcoming game…we might want to stay away from our athletes’ necks!  Has anyone experienced really bad side-effects after a session with the chiropractor?

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15 Responses to “UVa Football Team….be careful of massages!”

  1. 27 Aug 2008 at 1:29 pm1LouLouBird said:

    Isn’t the whole point of this article to dispute the claim that there is a high correlation? Read the last sentence under “bottom line.”

  2. 27 Aug 2008 at 1:59 pm2parlie said:

    this meta-article is mad confusing. was i not misinformed?

  3. 27 Aug 2008 at 2:02 pm3shenanigans said:

    Strokes during massages can be quite pleasurable.

    /someone had to go there

  4. 27 Aug 2008 at 2:06 pm4Stanley said:

    I was of the impression that chiropractic manipulation was basically bunk, better than, say, phrenology but not much better than astrology.

  5. 27 Aug 2008 at 2:28 pm5Donk said:

    @4
    Don’t you dare ever question phrenology again.

    Without it, ‘Men At Work’ would have lacked some serious plot formation.

    /ok ok, sorry.
    //tangent.

  6. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:21 pm6Floozy said:

    I believe that Sharon Stone attributed her stroke a few years back to a chiropractic fuck up, but I can’t go and find a link because I just read the last hour of bickering posts on the ‘What’s happening at Spicy Bear” thread and have lost the will to live.

  7. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:25 pm7shenanigans said:

    @7: Me too. Let’s go get a drinky-poo.

  8. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:27 pm8echo said:

    @7: Talking to yourself? I’d guess you already had a drinky-poo.

    /Internet-assisted suicide anyone?

  9. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:41 pm9shenanigans said:

    @8: I need one. Can you come to Crozet with some Vodka, Kahlua, and cream STAT.

  10. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:53 pm10Floozy said:

    OMG… that sounds so good and it’s only 3.52pm.

  11. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:56 pm11echo said:

    @9: I certainly can. I believe I even have some Van Gogh.

  12. 27 Aug 2008 at 3:58 pm12shenanigans said:

    Floozy come to Crozet and we can drink white russians with echo in my damp gazebo.

  13. 27 Aug 2008 at 4:00 pm13Floozy said:

    LMAO…. my pergola is a bit wet around the edges as well today.

  14. 27 Aug 2008 at 4:06 pm14Lulu said:

    Ewwww… you might want to get that looked at Flooze. I think there’s an ointment for that.

  15. 28 Aug 2008 at 11:53 pm15Bacchus said:

    Given the regularity that football players get into trouble in the offseason, I thought that this was going to be a warning against frequenting the local Asian massage parlors.

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