Bowlers’ Performances in 2013 Champions Trophy

Repair of spondylolysis in young fast bowlers.

Fast bowling in the game of cricket requires repetitive spinal extension, lateral deviation, lumbar flexion and thoracodorsal rotation. Back pain is common, and it has been shown that pars interarticularis defects had occurred in over 50% of a group of teenage fast bowlers. Many of these defects will heal, but some cause chronic pain which prevents bowling, although other activities may be pain...

Jumping Champions

Why men trophy hunt

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Darwin's champions fight back

Researchers are building their response to the attack by creationism on evolution as interest in Darwin memorabilia continues to grow.

Incentivizing Monitoring and Compliance in Trophy Hunting

Conservation scientists are increasingly focusing on the drivers of human behavior and on the implications of various sources of uncertainty for management decision making. Trophy hunting has been suggested as a conservation tool because it gives economic value to wildlife, but recent examples show that overharvesting is a substantial problem and that data limitations are rife. We use a case st...

Spinal abnormalities in young fast bowlers.

The action of fast bowling in the game of cricket is known to cause injuries to the lumbar spine. We studied a group of 16- to 18-year-old fast bowlers, selected for special training in Western Australia. All 24 had MR scans of the spine, 22 had radiographs and CT scans; in 20 the bowling technique was analysed biomechanically. There was a high incidence of back pain and this was always associa...