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Hip-Joint Degeneration

Modern Comeback: Jason Isringhausen
Hip resurfacing before the 2007 season allowed the St. Louis Cardinals’ relief pitcher go from “couldn’t stand” to “elite closer” in six months.

Future Fix: In nearly every sport, a hip injury has been the kiss of death for an athlete. Stem cells offer the best (if distant) hope for fixing hobbled hips, but advances in minimally invasive surgery have made the once-complex hip replacement almost routine. Stronger materials and improvements to MRI scanners and 3-D computer modeling have also led to better-fitting, stronger prosthetics. The biggest advance for quicker recoveries is a patch-job procedure called resurfacing, in which doctors use tiny tools to smooth rough spots in the joint and coat it with a low-friction ceramic substance. In the lab, researchers are developing and testing motor-oil-like lubricants that doctors will inject into the hip post-surgery to reduce pain from friction and further speed recovery.


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Okay, so we’re really supposed to believe the U.S. government on this one?  Lead…even small amounts of it are “safe” for small children?  It’s dust that’s being emitted from the artificial turf.  That means it is being breathed in by the kids  - who are closer to the ground.

"Back in April, the New Jersey Department of Health put in a request that the agency [The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission] take a closer look at artificial turf fields.

This came after they found that many of the older fields began to emit levels of lead which they believed could have posed a health risk.

The commission followed up by studying the artificial fields and the amount of lead."


No…no, thank you.  If I am the parent of small children, I will not let them play on artificial turf.  Let the guinea pigs they use for testing purposes be the real thing.  After all, we all know how the results of these so-called studies end up flip-flopping down the road.  And I’m sure you would rather have a healthy child who doesn’t have any disabilities due to lead poisoning rather than a law suit, right?

I thought so.


Lead In Artifical Turf Posed No Health Risk




 moneytimes