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TO YOUR HEALTH Keeping Athletes in the Game by MARY EZZEDDINE Fall is here, and for many people that prepare him to return to football. Anthony's means one thing: football. Whether it PT was overseen by a doctor of physical is tuning in for Monday Night Football, therapy as well as a certified athletic trainer, College Game Day or the local Friday night who saw to it that Anthony returned to lights, one thing's for sure; it wouldn't be football better than he left it: "PT is all about a game without a good tackle. You know; working to get back to where you were, but the ones that make you say "ouch." If it's it got me further," he said. "Now I'm better not on the field with the Cape Fear Heroes than I was … I'm much faster, quicker and Arena Football team or in the rink with the stronger, and that was the PT." Fayetteville FireAntz Hockey team, there Anthony's story is like countless others is plenty to do to protect local middle and who have been injured during play, but the high school athletes from injury. And while difference between good and great outcomes rehabilitation is important, so is ensuring that lies in perseverance. Instead of giving up and young athletes are prepared for their return giving in, Anthony worked tirelessly to ensure to sport. he was standing beside his teammates as a An injury is a devastating blow to a young starting running back on the varsity football While injuries are a fact of life for many athletes, with good care and athlete with aspirations of college play, team this year. If you find yourself with an hard work these can be overcome. and for many athletes, return to sport after injury of your own, whether from playing an injury seems an impossible feat. Take your favorite sport or while out for an evening Anthony, a senior and starting running stroll, the rules are the same. To endure, back at Pine Forest High School in Fayetteville, for example. He loves the you must be dedicated and determined, and allow the injury to inspire your game, and has been playing since he was eight years old. Last fall, Anthony improvement physically, mentally and emotionally. It is important for patients suffered a season-ending injury during the third game that forced him to become a part of their own recovery: so be in control of your healing, set to watch the remaining season from the sidelines. He sustained a severe goals, plan for setbacks, and know how to handle them. An foot fracture that required surgery, followed by several months of physical injury can slow you down and limit what you can do on the therapy (PT). Anthony needed physical therapy to rehabilitate from his field, but don't let it be the MARY EZZEDDINE, DPT at CCRC Physical injury, and like many patients, wasn't sure what to expect: "I had no idea reason you give up; don't Therapy. Contributing Writer. www.ccrcnc. what I would be doing," he recalls. Anthony's rehabilitation focused on let it keep you out of the com COMMENTS? Editor@upandcominreturning to his prior level of function, with sports-specific training to game. gweekly.com. Obama and McCrory in the Same Box by D.G. MARTIN President Barack Obama and Governor Pat McCrory are in the same box. made in the past." Criticized by their opponents for being radical and divisive, they are, at Today, after the passage of a partisan legislative program that is the same time, dismissed by partisans in their own political parties as too unpopular with many North Carolinians, McCrory's bloom, like Obama's, moderate and too accommodating. has faded. Both came into office promising, and genuinely aspiring, to bring a new A poll by High Point University showed Obama and McCrory tied spirit of conciliation and peace to a disrupted political order. Both hoped with approval ratings of 39 percent in the state. A similar poll by Elon to bring an end to petty partisan divisiveness. University showed McCrory's disapproval rating dropping to 46 Now both find themselves characterized as demons rather than healers. percent, not far behind Obama, who registers 51 percent disapproval. What happened? Feelings go beyond mere disapprovals. A friend of mine who has little "There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the respect for the president or his policies told me he would have a hard United States of America," are the words Obama used in his keynote time being civil to Obama, but would try since he is the president of the speech to the Democratic convention in 2004 to gain the hopeful United States. attention of the entire country. Maybe being civil is a start. Those hopeful words previewed his 2008 presidential campaign, in Maybe those of us who oppose McCrory's policies should think about There was a time when which he promised bipartisanship and an effort to heal the country's accepting a cookie the next time he offers us one, taking an opportunity politicians worked together political divide. for the good of the country. to communicate civilly instead of rushing to demonize the gesture as It did not work, of course, and within months of his election victory, patronizing and sexist. polls already were showing the greatest polarization of opinion about presidential Maybe there is a good example in a new book by NBC's Chris Matthews, Tip performance in 40 years, with 88 percent of Democrats approving Obama, while only and The Gipper: When Politics Worked, about the relationship between Republican 27 percent of Republicans did so. President Ronald Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Obama supporters blame Republican partisans for opposing Obama at every turn Matthews writes, "Why won't our leaders work to accommodate each other, and rejecting his efforts to find common ground. Conservative voices blame Obama. employing civility as they cooperate to accomplish goals in the country's best interests? As the Washington Times wrote last year, "The arrogance of power overwhelmed the Why must we continue to suffer their relentless gumming up of the works? What in better angels of his nature. Those who questioned his policies were labeled extremists, our national character, in the ways we choose to deal with one another and respect or worse." different viewpoints, has changed so since the days of Reagan and O'Neill? How can In an election year interview with Charlie Rose, Obama conceded, "I haven't been we win back the faith that our republic is working?" able to change the atmosphere here in Washington to reflect the decency and common Reagan and O'Neill, Matthews says, "disagreed on the role sense of ordinary people." of government, knew it, admitted it face-to-face. But they put Much like Obama in his first presidential campaign, McCrory promised a bipartisan concentrated effort into trying to get along even as they challenged approach in his campaign for governor. After his election he said he was reaching out each other. Why, we wonder, D.G. MARTIN, Host of UNC's Book Watc. to leaders on both sides of the aisle to ensure a smooth transition. can't it be that way again?" Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@ "I don't want to make the mistake of any party, which is become arrogant with your Why, indeed? upancomingweekly.com. power or majorities," McCrory said. 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