Category: Health
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen goes sailing Friday with other Craig Hospital patients
Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen joined other patients at her rehabilitation hospital for a day of boating. Courtesy of 7NEWS on YouTube
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Swimmer Overcomes Shattered Spine, Swims in the Ocean for the First Time
Feeling Inspired? Go skydiving, profess your love, swim with sharks, make your friend’s day! Capture these moments and share with the world. Courtesy of The Weinstein Company on YouTube http://youtu.be/rEu-Hj31tdM
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James Magnussen cleared of serious back injury
James Magnussen will battle on with a degenerative back for the rest of his swimming career after scans revealed the extent of the damage to the injury that plagued his Commonwealth Games. Magnussen still walked away from Glasgow with two gold medals, but swam in pain towards the end of the meet. While the injury…
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Virginia swimmer fights bacteria eating away at his leg
Doctors say a Stafford, Virginia man will be able to keep his leg after contracting dangerous bacteria while swimming in the Potomac River. For the Fourth of July holiday, Joe Wood and his wife Jeana visited family near Callao, Virginia and swam in a Potomac River inlet. “We were jumping off the dock, throwing sticks…
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Injured Olympian swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen on moving forward
In this web extra, Van Dyken-Rouen shares how she stays optimistic during her recovery from an ATV accident that severely injured her spine.
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Ten of the most successful people with ADHD, including Michael Phelps
9. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time Michael Phelps is one of the greatest athletic icons in the world. Phelps also holds the all-time record for Olympic medals and credits much of this success to his ADHD. He started the Michael Phelps Foundation which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and…
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Ellie Simmonds Reveals How To Swim Happy
This summer, Ellie Simmonds is encouraging the nation to get back in the water and rediscover their love of swimming with an exclusive SwimBritain training session. A new four-week study by British Gas SwimBritain reveals that swimming increases sleep quality, energy levels and fitness. In fact, it can improve well-being by 20% after only one…
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It’s a myth: swimming right after eating is totally fine
In the coming weeks and months, you might hear some well-meaning parents warn their children against swimming right after they eat. The idea is that swimming after eating can cause muscle cramps or a side stitch. The preventative measure, usually, is to wait 30 minutes after eating before getting in the water. It’s unclear where this originally…
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Ten Percent of U.S. Beaches Fail Swimmer Safety Standards
Read WSET You may want to check the beach water before you get in to swim. Researchers with the Natural Resources Defense Council monitored more than 3,000 beaches and according to the annual “Testing the Waters” report, 10% of U.S. beaches failed the government’s swimmer safety standards. Virginia had one of the lowest failure rates of water samples. The…