Category: Health
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Why a Quick Cold Water Swim Is Good for You
People have been taking dips in ice cold water for generations, both for pleasure and for generations-touted health benefits. It may seem crazy to plunge into freezing water for any length of time, but this video from the folks at DNews runs down some of the benefits—and sets the record straight on the dangers. See…
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Missy Franklin Surprises Swimmer With Rare Form Of Cancer
Gold medal swimmer Missy Franklin made a young woman’s holiday wish come true on Tuesday. Franklin visited a cancer patient at Rocky Mountain Hospital For Children. Rebecca Carcaterra was in the middle of her sophomore year of college when a tumor was found in her shoulder this October. She was diagnosed with a very rare…
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Despite injuries, Erin McNulty aims for Olympic tryouts
Erin McNulty has been swimming six days a week since she moved to Humboldt County when she was 11. In high school, McNulty was the fastest swimmer at the Humboldt Swim Club. Now age 20, she swims the fastest 100-yard butterfly on the Division I collegiate swim team at University of Hawaii — without being…
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Quadriplegic swimmer leans on love to push forward
The following is one man’s experience, through two parallel stories. The first story is of a swimmer named Dillon Connolly, a record-setter at Sprayberry High School in Marietta and the University of Southern California. He qualified for Olympic trials and then decided to train professionally. Then in September, he had an accident. “I remember everything,”…
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Are public swimming pools unhygienic?
Swimming strengthens the body while the water buoys it up and protects against exercise-related injury, making it a popular and frequently recommended therapy for people recovering from an injury, operation or chronic illness. The benefits of this are certainly likely to outweigh the potential health dangers associated with public pools. But it’s not silly to…
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Olympic Swimmer Amy Van Dyken Determined to Walk Again
Amy Van Dyken, the six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer who became paralyzed when she severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash this summer, says she is determined to walk again. “There is a possibility that that milestone of me walking again may happen,†Van Dyken told ABC’s Robin Roberts in an interview for the…
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Brittany Elmslie gives up Vegemite as she chases her OIympic dream
Olympic gold medallist Brittany Elmslie has made the ultimate food sacrifice as she embarks on her journey to the Rio Games. Three months after learning she suffered from coeliac disease, the 20-year-old is flying towards her goal despite giving up her secret weapon, Vegemite. “I was devastated when I realised Vegemite wasn’t gluten free,†she…
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Swimmer overcomes adversity to become one of best
Dominic Baber was diagnosed with hemophilia and swimming was about the only sport he could do. Now his name is on the record board at Blue Springs South as one of the best.
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Multiple Sclerosis Swim-In Program in Bergen County, NJ
SWIM-IN is a therapeutic water exercise program for people with multiple sclerosis. The program is co-sponsored with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society