Getting back in the game
In the middle of taking a lifeguarding test at camp in the summer of 2010, junior Jessie Rosen's already "loose shoulders" swung all the way around, immediately bringing an end to her test. "For a week my entire arm was blue and tingly and [I] lost all the feeling in it," Rosen said.
Rosen, a swimmer on the South team, was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome and snapping scapula syndrome after this injury. “[The injury] probably was from swimming so often,” Rosen said, “[but] the brick incident set it all off.”
Though Rosen said she now “can’t even be in the pool for really more than an hour without serious pain,” she still attends practices and meets. According to Rosen, swimming was too large a part of her identity to give up on account of injury. “I got back from camp and continued swimming because I’ve always been a swimmer,” she said.
She said she is occasionally frustrated by her inability to complete practices, but would not consider quitting the team.
Junior Abby Rice has had an experience similar to Rosen’s — she too has continued with her sport after sustaining a serious injury.
Rice has played soccer since kindergarten, has competed at the…
Concussions on the brain
The idea of sports injuries often evokes images of broken bones, muscle strains and twisted ankles, but deep inside the brain, a more serious and longer-lasting injury can take high school athletes off the field and even out of school.
This invisible injury, a concussion, is one of the most hotly debated topics in the realm of sports injuries, although this attention is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Varsity boys soccer coach John Conte said he has noticed the rise in interest about concussions. "I think that there has been and increase in conc…
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