On a sunny and warmish late-November day, my husband and I were meeting some close relatives to deposit our brother-in-law's ashes in a columbarium beside the remains of his late wife, my husband's only sibling. She had died during the pandemic, and her husband had subsequently moved away, but none of us were going to let the grim reaper separate a couple who had been conjoined by a lifetime of shared experiences.
Riding a mountain bike comes with risks, and injuries are common among most riders, from minor cuts and scrapes to broken bones and more severe head trauma. But what are the common injuries from mountain biking, and what is the recovery like for the most common MTB injuries? Well, I've had most of them over the years. From the minor scrapes and bumps to the more severe head trauma, fractured bones, and ligament damage.
Justin Gaethje's manager, Ali Abdelaziz, recently addressed all doubts about the mark on the fighter's neck leading up to UFC 324. Gaethje (27-5) had a visible mark on the right side of his neck leading up to his UFC 324 interim lightweight title fight against Paddy Pimblett last weekend. There were speculations about a potential staph infection, which could have jeopardized the fight. However, the fight went through, and Gaethje left Pimblett bloodied up en route to a unanimous decision win.
When you have an acute injury, your body is sending signals through the peripheral and central nervous systems and the immune system to say, hold on, I need to stop doing this so we can allow the tissue to heal, says Ericka Merriwether, a physical therapist and pain researcher at New York University. Rest, after all, is the first part of the familiar RICE therapy, which stands for rest, ice, compression and elevation.