[sumo] Spondylolysis (back stress fracture)

[Joe Petrow]

Rather than looking for loopholes to exploit, please look at the big
picture.  Asashoryu was supposed to be too injured to even travel on a
jungyo.  Protocol and precedent dictate that Asashoryu should have
been resting either in a hospital or in his home in Japan.

Nevermind the soccer part; the mere fact that he got on a plane and
flew back to Mongolia (without notice or permission) by itself would
have been enough to warrant this punishment.

  - Peterao

On 8/2/07, O'Flaherty, Brian <brian.o'flaherty at banctec.co.uk> wrote:
> I haven't been involved in the rights or wrongs of Asashoryu's soccer game
> up to this point but I think playing a 'non-twisting' sport (if that defence
> even holds any water) would be seen as exposing yourself to unnecessary risk
> and that's quite apart from the behavioural duties of a yokozuna.
> I'm a big Asa fan but I can't really defend him in this case.
>
> >I have done a fleetingly quich investigation of back stress fracture,
> >known as spondylolysis.  One article that I read examined the angle of
> >stress fracture, and implied that sports that twist the upper torso,
> >including softball, tennis, volleyball, baseball, judo and shot-put, and
> >I would include sumo, can be different from the angle in non twisting
> >sports, such as soccer and running.  Would this lead to the conclusion
> >that a stress fracture resulting from a twisting sport might not be
> >exacerbated by activity in a nontwisting sport?   Hmm.
>
>
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