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The impact of riding and skating must have
an adverse affect on your body as time goes on. Is there anything
that you can do to either lessen these affects or make your body
more resistant to this wear and tear?
In general, be fit and healthy, have a good diet, don't smoke, drink
in moderation, and warm up before riding. God, I sound like a public
service announcement. At the end of the day, some wear and tear
is inevitable, you just need to go out and enjoy yourself.
How much of an affect does your diet have on
your bones/joints etc? Do you have a good diet?
Diet plays an incredibly important role in health in general, but
again, when you're young you don't seem to worry about it. As long
as you have a well-balanced healthy diet you should be fine. Mine's
pretty good in all honesty, despite the fact that the majority of
its from the hospital canteen!
What's the worst injury you've ever seen/treated? What about
the worst riding/skating injury?
Obviously I can't go into too much detail, but road traffic accidents
can be pretty grim. Riding wise, when I was at Sheep Hills (South
California) in '97, there was a guy with a big cage round his head
for a broken neck after a simple hook up. I didn't actually see
it, but it certainly made me think.
Why do joints crack/click? Is it bad? How can it be stopped?
It's weird you should ask that, I get asked that all the time. No
one I've ever asked, even consultant hand surgeons, seem convinced
that they really know. Actually there's a guy on one of your radio
shows real late at night (Radio 5live) who answers all kinds of
crazy questions like "why is a rainbow curved" etc. I
was up listening to that show the other night and very nearly phoned
up to ask that very same thing. Maybe you could ask him for me!
What kind of skating/riding-related injuries are generally worse
- ones that mess up the bones, or ones that mess up the muscles/tendons?
Which bones/tendons take longest to mend and why? If you break a
bone, even if it heals, will it always be weaker than it was before?
Man, this is like an exam question, what's going on Steve? How long
have you got, do you really want to know about the biomechanics
of healed fractures?!!
Cheers, Tom.
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