Boxers damage their brains

Runners wear out their knees.

Mountain bikers break collarbones.


What about paddlers?

Shoulder injuries, for sure... but what else?

I'm thinking about my vertebrae when I paddle - on every stroke, I visualize
them grinding back and forth as I twist my trunk, maybe wearing out the
cartilage like a runner wears out the knees/hips. Is there anything to this?

Other typical injuries?
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PeteCresswell

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

Boxers damage their brains

Runners wear out their knees.

Mountain bikers break collarbones.

What about paddlers?

Shoulder injuries, for sure... but what else?

I'm thinking about my vertebrae when I paddle - on every stroke, I visualize
them grinding back and forth as I twist my trunk, maybe wearing out the
cartilage like a runner wears out the knees/hips. Is there anything to this?

Other typical injuries?
--
PeteCresswell

Arthritis in the shoulders and elbows.

JAM

Open boaters.....knees
"Adolphe Menjou" "Adolphe wrote in message
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"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

Boxers damage their brains

Runners wear out their knees.

Mountain bikers break collarbones.

What about paddlers?

Shoulder injuries, for sure... but what else?

I'm thinking about my vertebrae when I paddle - on every stroke, I
visualize
them grinding back and forth as I twist my trunk, maybe wearing out the
cartilage like a runner wears out the knees/hips. Is there anything
to this?

Other typical injuries?
--
PeteCresswell

Arthritis in the shoulders and elbows.

JAM

Hard to say the cause and effect relationship, but after 10-12 years of
heavy paddling in trippers, with all those 200lb portages and hours and
hours pushing a thousand-pound boat with just shoulder rotation, I now
have a chronic bad back that can be debilitating. I have nothing but
anecdotal evidence, but I have no personal doubt that hundreds of
thousands of twists on my lower back (efficient paddle strokes means
you rotate your shoulders), combined with the pounding on my spine when
tumping or portaging, has been the primary cause. I suppose the
unbalanced diet of a river tripper (low on fresh veggies, high on meat
and canned goods) probably had its impact, too.

Age certainly plays a role, but I was perennially young far longer than
my friends until my back went out. Now I have seemed to have aged
beyond them, as I am less able to hike up big hills, sleep on the
ground for extended periods, or take off on a run or hike without
serious consideration of 'plan B', in case my back goes out.
--riverman

Forget his name now but there was a physio who for his project examined
the status of the backs of paddlers who work in the industry -
instructors and the like. He discovered that they had greater incidents
of back injury than nurses. Talk to the play boaters and you will
discover they all have bad backs.

Me I have hyper-extended cruciate ligaments in both knees for getting
pinned and wrapping my knees the wrong way around the cockpit rim but
this isn't a common injury.

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"(PeteCresswell)" writes
Boxers damage their brains

Runners wear out their knees.

Mountain bikers break collarbones.


What about paddlers?

Shoulder injuries, for sure... but what else?

I'm thinking about my vertebrae when I paddle - on every stroke, I visualize
them grinding back and forth as I twist my trunk, maybe wearing out the
cartilage like a runner wears out the knees/hips. Is there anything to this?

Other typical injuries?

--
Dave Manby