Dr. Helena Grant
63 Pleasant Street, suite 311
Watertown, MA 02472
617-591-9200
The more you understand your body and how it functions, the better equipped you'll be to take care of yourself to achieve optimal health, naturally. Dr. Grant's goal is to empower you to take charge of your own health and future, educating you about your condition to decrease your need for future care. We've included the Patient Education section on our website (see the column on the left) to provide you with valuable, practical wellness information which you can incorporate into your lifestyle to improve the quality of your life. We hope you will turn to these pages whenever you have a question about any health-related issues and urge you to contact our practice at any time to make an appointment with the doctor, so your unique condition can be addresses more specifically.
Dr. Grant is also pleased to answer many of your health-related questions via e-mail at [email protected] Do not hesitate to contact her.
Though there is no such thing as a "safe" sport, highly competitive sports, such as football, weightlifting, gymnastics, and wrestling, pose particularly higher risks of injuries, especially among children.
According to experts, as much as 20 percent of all sports-related injuries involve the lower back or neck. Running and weightlifting, and other sports that involve repetitive impact, expose children to a high risk for lumbar (lower back) injuries. Contact sports, such as soccer and football, expose the cervical spine, or neck, to injury. More than one-third of all high school football players sustain some type of injury. Soccer participants are easy candidates for mild to severe head traumas, neck injuries, cervical spine damage, headache, neck pain, dizziness, irritability, and insomnia. Heading the ball, the act of using the head to re-direct the soccer ball, has been linked with cervical injuries in children and adults. The trampoline and gymnastics also present significant risks for spinal cord injuries from unexpected and brute falls or contact with hard surfaces.
Here's a look at some of the other common injuries by sport: