Category: Health
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Competitive Swimmer Braves Spine Surgery | Cincinnati Children’s
Amy Fryer was one of her daughter’s swim coaches. She saw Ellie in a bathing suit every day. So it came as a shock when she learned her daughter had scoliosis. Amy Fryer, Ellie’s mom: “So my friend said, ‘I think she’s crooked,’ one day. And I said, ‘Oh, gosh, no, she’s 12, she’s turning…
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Talkspace x Michael Phelps: How Therapy Helped a World Champion Swimmer
Talkspace has partnered with world champion swimmer, Michael Phelps, and in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re sharing an important story about how therapy helped him feel stronger. If therapy helped a 28-time medalist maybe it can help you too. Here’s his therapy story: www.talkspace.com/michael
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CDC issues warning on hotel swimming pools
Planning on going swimming while on vacation this summer? The CDC said on Thursday that an estimated 27,000 people were sickened, and eight died, from swimming-related disease from 2000 to 2014 in hotel pools and hot tubs.
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Rowley’s Return
A battle with depression sidelined Haley Rowley for the first half of the swimming season. Her strength and perseverance allowed her to return and close out the season by winning the 400 IM, 1650 freestyle and being named the Mountain West Swimmer of The Year while shattering a number of school records.
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‘World-first’ call for exercise to be prescribed to all Australian cancer patients
The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) has prepared the Exercise in Cancer Care paper, which states doctors should prescribe particular exercise regimes and refer patients to exercise specialists with experience in cancer care. The statement has been endorsed by more than 25 health organisations, including the Cancer Council and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,…
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Splash into fitness
If you’re looking to get into a sport that boasts a variety of positives – from losing weight to improving fitness – you’ll struggle to find one more fitting than swimming. Here we explain why you should take up swimming as your new hobby this Summer. Low impact Swimming is arguably the only sport you…
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Drop that rubber ducky! Dirty secrets swimming inside bath-time toy, study shows
Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers counted the microbes swimming inside the toys and say the murky liquid released when ducks were squeezed contained “potentially pathogenic bacteria” in four…
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Swimming with Multiple Sclerosis
Swimming is an exercise anyone can do—but its an especially great exercise for individuals with multiple sclerosis. Because multiple sclerosis often affects muscle control, coordination, temperature regulation, and more, many types of exercise can be difficult for MS patients. In the case of swimming, however, the benefits are great—without some of the typical risks. Let’s…
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‘I can’t feel the water on my fingers anymore’
An extremely interesting article here on Zwemza, on when and why Ian Thorpe decided quit and on what he thinks we should to for our athletes After a long stint away from the prying eyes of the Australian media, including a much-publicised training stint in Los Angeles, Ian Thorpe is preparing to return to Australia-based…