Sep
22
2008
Golf Can Be a Painful Pursuit
Posted by: Randy in Physical Therapy, Silver City, tags: golf
Tiger Woods will be conspicuous in his absence from this week’s field and from the remainder of this season’s PGA Tour schedule, but Woods’s health issues have substantiated an often snidely dismissed truth: Swinging a golf club can be dangerous.
With powerful swings generating significant stress and torque on various body parts, many elite golfers often suffer from a wide variety of ailments — from sore hands and feet to achy wrists and tender elbows, wounded knees to balky backs. Everyone who plays the game knows how to spell ibuprofen, and they all have personal trainers, therapists, chiropractors and orthopedic specialists listed on speed dial.
“We just beat up our bodies,” Jack Nicklaus said recently. “It’s why I gave up golf.”
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