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Health and Safety Tips
Aching Backs Serious, disabling injuries of the back are unusual in sports, if you have a sound spine to begin with. But there are certain people, in fact, a good many, who are plagued with Inborn spinal defects that should rule out football and other sports in whlch there is considerable risk of back injury. The American Medical Asso elation’s Committee on the Medical Aspects of Sports point8 out that congenital (birth) defects of the spine that don't cause obvious visible signs often aren’t recognized in childhood. When the boy or girl becomes active in athletics, pain in the back or spasm of the back muscles may appear for the first time. Coaches and trainers as well as team physicians can help by being wary of the athlete who seems to be having continual or recurring back pains, even if the pains aren’t dis-» abling. The only way to prevent serious chronically disabling back conditions in young athletes is by rigidly excluding those who have serious birth defects of the spine from sports which have a high risk of injury to the back. If there’s a young athlete in your family who often turns up with an aching back after an afternoon of football, don’t take a chance on the discomfort stemming from merely a strain or sprain. Consult your doctor for medical advice as to whether football may be dangerous for your boy. Excluding a youngster^fram rough sports sometimes seems harsh. Particularly if he is a talented player who makes the school team. But, from the standpoint of the coach and the team, this player may become incapacitated just when he is needed most. Not to mention that he may suffer from a "bad back” the rest 01 his life.
Blind Singer-Evangelist. - At Etlan Revival
Revival services are continuing at the Etlan Free Methodist Church on F. T. Valley. Road. The public is cordially invited by Pastor W. L. Colvin to hear the blind singer-evangelist Harry Fagan of Union, Pa., providing special music this week and Sunday.' The Rev. L. H. Kelley of Spencerviile, Md. is preaching nightly at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. through September 29th.
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