There's an expression in sports that 'you play, you pay'. And this refers to getting injured. You play frequently enough and push yourself enough and you will suffer an injury. It's not a case of 'if' but 'when' and when that happens, check more for personal injury lawyers. Most athletes know what I'm talking about and have spent time in an ER, in a sling, on crutches or a wheelchair. I'd have to say being injured is the worst part of sports. Worse than losing. Because when you're injured you can't play. You can't help your team. And if things aren't going well it's even worse. You have to wait it out, go for your rehab appointments and wait for the OK to return to training and competition. A recently study looked at how training the non-injured side minimized the losses that typically occur to the injured side. What the researchers did was have 30 subjects, male and female, between 18-34 years, put their non-dominant arm in a sling for 8 hours per day. The elbow was bent to 90 degrees and then immobilized for the 8 hours. The non-dominant arm was determined as the non-writing arm. All subjects had the non-dominant arm immobilized for 8 hours per day. The 30 subjects were then assigned to one of three groups. The first group did no exercise, the second did eccentric and concentric exercise and the third group did eccentric only exercise. The tempo for the eccentric and concentric group was 2 seconds up and 2 seconds down. And for the eccentric group the participants took 4 seconds to lower the weight. The exercise performed was a biceps curl over a preacher bent with a dumbbell. For the eccentric only group the researcher grabbed the dumbbell at the bottom of each rep....