P7the Olive P20 Expatriates International Attend an Iftar School Practise Organised by the Nepali the Spirit Muslim Society in of Yoga
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Community Community Around 400 Over 1,500 children at Nepalese P7the Olive P20 expatriates International attend an Iftar School practise organised by the Nepali the spirit Muslim Society in of yoga. collaboration with RAF. Friday, June 24, 2016 Ramadan 19, 1437 AH DOHA 30°C—41°C TODAY PUZZLES 14 & 15 LIFESTYLE/HOROSCOPE 16 STUDY: Dr Scott Li, left, prepares Jimmy Russell for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Toshiba America Medical Systems MR Research Center in Irvine, California. COVER What’s in store? STORY UC Irvine study taps high school brains to find out the impact of football blows. P2-3 2 GULF TIMES Friday, June 24, 2016 COMMUNITY COVER STORY About the head with a hand PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.15am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.45am Zuhr (noon) 11.36am Asr (afternoon) 2.59pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.31pm on the heart Isha (night) 8.01pm USEFUL NUMBERS There’s no medical consensus on what should be done if microbleeds are found, particularly if the player is asymptomatic, Dr Robert Cantu, a Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Boston neurosurgeon and author of Concussions Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 and Our Kids, tells Courtney Perkes Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 ote Unquo Qu te We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 44466405 Fax: 44350474 Friday, June 24, 2016 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “There’s great concern regarding the relationship between playing organised football and head injuries and the brain changes that may result. We have the opportunity of either providing some reassurance for the safety of the activity or to determine whether there are any red flags,” says Dr Mark Fisher, a UCI MONITORING: Laura Russell, left, watches the monitor as her son Jimmy gets scanned by the MRI while Dr Scott Li keeps watch at Toshiba America neurologist Medical Systems MR Research Center in Irvine, California. hristian LaBow left in the future, or that microbleeds Laura Russell of Long Beach, Servite High’s spring automatically mean he will. California, said she worries about football practice early “Right now, we can’t correlate the possibility of head injuries. She on a recent afternoon to the two,” Cantu said. “It is true said the MRI will serve as a good undergo a brain scan. you might one day be able to, and baseline measure of her son’s health. CThe 17-year-old varsity centre you only will if you start following “We try to keep him with the best wasn’t injured. He was contributing players.” helmet,” she said. “And pray.” to the growing body of research on Chaz Kekipi, head athletic trainer Some helmet manufacturers are football and neurological health. at Servite, said the Anaheim private introducing sensors to monitor LaBow joined a novel UC Irvine school’s involvement in the study head impacts in real time; Virginia study last month that is looking for promotes the kind of transparency Tech provides independent safety evidence of microscopic brain bleeds that the sport has lacked in the rankings on which helmets best among high school football players. past, which has led to declining reduce concussion risks. MRI results from 100 teen players participation. He said the program Even without any results, the will be compared with brain scans was also among the fi rst in the UCI study has spurred interesting from a control group of male students state to implement return-to-play conversations between the athletes who don’t play the sport. concussion protocols for player and their parents. “I was like, ‘Oh that’s kinda cool safety. On the way to the Toshiba to see how my brain works,’” said “I like the fact that we’re scanning facility in Irvine, LaBow LaBow, who lives in Huntington contributing to greater awareness and his mother, Heather LaBow, Beach, California. “I was thinking I and greater education and hopefully talked about what they would do should probably do this because I use better research on how to handle with the fi ndings. my head a lot.” some of these brain injuries and “I was saying that if the results In March, the NFL publicly lingering issues that student athletes came back and it showed there was acknowledged for the fi rst time have,” Kekipi said. “Hopefully this something that could be detrimental that football is connected to the research will help us continue to to his health down the road, that degenerative brain disease found better manage these concussion we’d have to re-evaluate and in nearly 100 former professional episodes so we’re really tailoring possibly give up football,” Heather players. Beyond those well- each protocol to the athlete.” LaBow said. publicised cases, far less is known UCI will share any abnormal Her son, who aspires to play about how blows to the head aff ect results with the students and their professionally, felt diff erently. He the still-developing adolescent parents. Before the scan, players describes the feeling of winning like brain. A 2013 report by the Institute provide a health history, including fi reworks in his heart. of Medicine found that high any past symptoms of concussion. “I would fi nd ways to keep school football players suff er more Fisher, who is still recruiting players, myself safe,” he said. “I wouldn’t concussions than college players but plans to publish his fi ndings after quit football because of a lone little drew no conclusions on whether the Radiologists will review the scans Concussions and Our Kids, said the study is completed at the end of problem.” injuries lead to long-term damage. for cerebral microbleeds, which the UCI study sounds worthwhile, the year. LaBow’s parents did not allow Dr Mark Fisher, a UCI neurologist are small areas where bleeding has noting that early-stage CTE has Jimmy Russell, 17, who plays with him to play tackle football until — and a football fan — wants to fi nd occurred. Microbleeds would not been found in the brains of deceased LaBow on the varsity team, enrolled he started high school because of out how early evidence of trauma normally be seen in teens unless high school football players. CTE at the suggestion of his mother, their concern about concussions. might show up in young players. they had suff ered a signifi cant head symptoms include memory loss, Laura Russell. He wore a black Heather LaBow said they were glad “There’s great concern regarding injury, Fisher said. They are also impaired judgment and depression. Servite football T-shirt for his scan to participate in research that can the relationship between playing a possible risk factor for chronic But Cantu said there’s no medical and dozed during the 40-minute help inform the decisions of younger organised football and head injuries traumatic encephalopathy, or consensus on what should be done if procedure that fl ashed colourful players and their families. and the brain changes that may CTE, which has been diagnosed by microbleeds are found, particularly images of his brain on a computer “It’s a really important topic, and result,” Fisher said. “We have the autopsy in players including, most if the player is asymptomatic. He monitor. it’s hot right now,” she said. “It’s opportunity of either providing recently, former Oakland Raiders said he wouldn’t want parents “I was intrigued since I’ve never exciting to be a part of something some reassurance for the safety of quarterback Ken Stabler. to assume that the absence of had a concussion,” Russell said. “I that can make a diff erence in the the activity or to determine whether Dr Robert Cantu, a Boston microbleeds means their child want to see if it’s actually taken a future.” —The Orange County there are any red fl ags.” neurosurgeon and author of won’t have neurological problems toll.” Register/TNS 4 GULF TIMES Friday, June 24, 2016 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND Male anorexia often goes undiagnosed, untreated By Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy ighteen months ago, Alex Levy, then 19, fell while rock-climbing, injuring his foot. He was midway through freshman year at college in California. Levy loved to hike, Ecycle and run. He played Ultimate Frisbee on a school team. The foot injury didn’t only snap bones and rupture ligaments. It snapped off physical activity and ruptured social interaction. “I thought, I don’t want to fall out of shape,” Levy says, “so I’ll eat less, eat healthier. “I started to lose weight. That became a matter of pride. People would comment. I would feel good, though I was essentially starving myself.” What Levy had tried to control began controlling him. “I was restricting, my body was malnourished, the injuries piled up. I’m a musician, but I had nerve damage in my hands. I couldn’t play music. By the time summer came around, instead of one injury, I had six.” Carpal tunnel and tendinitis plagued ankles, elbows, a shoulder. The summer camp he’d always attended was out of the question.