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Playing Sports ?

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
Since i was 5 or 6 i have played all kinds of sports. I lived in front of our towns baseball and football field.

I played school baseball and football from 8th grade until i graduated. I played 6 years as catcher and on the football team i played wide receiver and safety. I also returned punts and kick offs.

From the time i was age 10 until 35 i ran 15 miles or more a week. I ran my first 10k with my preacher when i was 10. Also add that i took karate and kick boxed in the amateur league for about 3 years. I was like 12 wins 8 losses something like that.

I think all the playing sports and running is what is making my hands and knees and the rest of my joints hurt.

I have a couple friends who say they never hurt or have joint problems but they never played sports either.

I wonder if sports hurt me or chemo Cisplatin hurt me worse? I got cancer at 45. I was having some joint pain but i was working 60 to 100 hours a week.

Also while i had cancer i stayed in bed for almost 1 year. Just when i almost could get out of bed they would do something and i would be sick for 3 more months.

Now even with strong pain meds if my pain is a 3 it is a very good day.

I wonder if it was sports or cancer that hurt me so bad? I know laying in bed a year did not help.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    7 years of football as a lineman compressed my spine and joints nearly 2 inches. whenever i have an athlete that can get scholarship money for either track and field or football i strongly urge him to take T&F. his body will thank him 30 years down the road.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had 3 schools offer scholarships for baseball. It was from schools espn has never heard of. LOL I was fixated on joining the military. I might have taken a school up on it but i did not want to be a catcher.

    I was only 5 foot 5 and left handed so all i could be was catcher or outfield. It is harder to get a catcher than an outfielder so it was catcher or nothing.[:(]
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  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    SOME exercise and use of muscles and joints is good. Pushing the joints and muscles to the limits of endurance, as is required in competition over uses, particularly the cartilage and connecting ligaments. If someone is ACTIVE they probably gained from the motions of their body. If they were COMPETITIVE, going against someone else, and each person wanted to out-perform the other, then abuse results, so the cost of seeking to win does irrepairable damage. Just look at those that compete professionally in any sport involving effort, particularly when contact is involved.

    Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I lay quietly until it passes.
    John Hutchins
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  • MFIMFI Member Posts: 7,899 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I played all three sports in high school and went on to play Division 1 baseball in the 80's. I had the Yankees, Cubs and Expos looking at me until I tore an ACL my junior year of college. Since those days I have had two knee operations, a huge cancer lymph node surgery and two orchectomies. Now at age 50 I still play softball 2 nights a week and some Sundays in tournaments. Moral to the story ...keep moving.. [;)]
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