Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-03-21 | Page 12 | When Your Muscles Strike

4 4 if It I WHEN fEN YOUR MUSCLES STRIKE jf SI- SI 9 S Tennis heart is one of the many ailments that afflict devotees of various arious sports ports and games j jIt I It Is not too much to say writes J Ja a medical correspondent that every every pastime has its health penalty I which is exacted b by Nature from the player who does not know his hisor hisor or her physical limitations I IFor I For or example tennis elbow is I I rapidly becoming the bane of the most popular summer game eer every I club has its victims n and nd it is sendan sending send- send lag ing an growing ever-growing number of or patients pa- pa j I Hents to medical consulting rooms The ailment Is induced b by severe strain in the arm muscles and usually usually ally any occurs at the beginning of the I season when the elbow muscles are suddenly called caned upon to function function runcI tion strenuously than they j I I I have hae been accustomed to do co for Cor several several sev- sev eral months I The Tho cure lies In a n. short rest and gradual return to the game undue I I. I strain being avoided a Care should j I be taken not to use a large handled j I I racket I V 9 1 I Football knee is an ailment th that t may affect not only the footballer I but the golfer It arises through I displacement of a cartilage and is la often very ery painful There is no sure sure preventive short of or giving up playing but a cure is almost certain certain tam tain If the pla player er rests the limb and wears a surgical knee kneecap ap To continue continue continue con con- pla playing ing with a displaced cartilage cartilage cartilage car car- I is 19 to risk lifelong lameness An ailment aliment peculiar to runners is sprinters leg a form torm of inflammation mation due to overstrain The condition condition condition con con- does docs not yield readily to treatment and prolonged rest is often the only cure i That other bugbear of ot the runners runner's runners runner's run run- I ners ner's life stitch is caused by muscular muscular muscular mus mus- cular contraction and also by stomach stomach stOmach ach trouble such a a. a indigestion There is only one reliable cure and that is to rest massaging the ribs often otten alleviating the discomfort The old belief beliet that chewin chewing grass grass' cured the stitch Is a 0 silly tion Grass chewing is dangerous and more than one person has suffered suffered suffered suf suf- as a result of the practice