Sania Mirza to return

sureshs

Bionic Poster
Didn't notice she was not there hehehehe. Anyways, what is this Korean thing? Sounds like acupuncture.


http://tennisnews.com/exclusive.php?pID=26441

After Miraculous Recovery, Mirza is Ready to Return to the Tour

Just two months after Sania Mirza's tennis career seemed to be threatened by a wrist injury that meant she was not even able to use a fork, let alone a tennis racket, the Indian 21 year-old is pain free and ready to return to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

After two bouts of surgery, Mirza was reluctant to undergo a third but she has been aided 26-year-old physiotherapist in Delhi who practices the South Korean science of spiral therapy which is based on cell regeneration. She was recommended to try Jatin Chaudhry's treatment by Indian international cricketer Yuvraj Singh and has been amazed by the results.

"For an athlete, surgery is one of the worst things, said Mirza who has only managed to register two tour wins since Wimbledon and has not played since being forced to retire at August's Olympic Games in Beijing against Iveta Benesova.

"From being completely active, you go to being dependent on someone else for everything and that's really difficult to live with. Yuvi told me that there was this doctor who could cure me in seven to ten days and that telephone call came at a time when I was staring surgery in the face for a second time in six months and thinking 'That's another year of my tennis gone.'"

Now Mirza, whose ranking has slipped from a career high of 27 little more than a year ago to her current position precariously just inside the top 100, is certain she will be fit to return to the WTA Tour at the beginning of 2009 if not sooner. She added: "I had seen the best doctors in the world, had surgery and nothing was working.

"Sometimes, I couldn't even feel my little finger, the pain was numbing. Yuvi told me that Jatin fixed his shoulder in ten minutes, and that it could work for me too.

"When I went to Jatin, he put some 30 to 35 needles on my index finger, and every time he hit the spot I felt an electric current go through me. He left the needles on for 30 minutes and he did this about three or four times a day.

" It was very painful, because the more times he did it the more sore the finger felt. After two days he asked me to bend my wrist and I had regained 90% of the movement. Just before I started the treatment I had done an ultra sound and there were cysts in the area. After ten days of treatment, there was no significant scarring tissue, my bones were fine and the two cysts were gone."
 
Returning to do what? :roll:

I mean what has Sania Mirza done?

She isn't the first athelete to have surgery to that type of injury.
 
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Tshooter

G.O.A.T.
"specialized in the rare South Korean science of spiral therapy, which is the regeneration of body cells. "

Oh brother....
 

sureshs

Bionic Poster
"specialized in the rare South Korean science of spiral therapy, which is the regeneration of body cells. "

Oh brother....

One of the murky grey areas of alternative medicine I guess. Well, if it works, it works I guess, even if the theory behind it is questionable.
 

bladepdb

Professional
"specialized in the rare South Korean science of spiral therapy, which is the regeneration of body cells. "

Oh brother....

Eastern medicine and rituals are something that the Western cultures underestimate too much, namely because a lot of it sounds like quack. I'll be honest, I'm biased as I am from India, but there is proliferous evidence of a lot of these practicies.

At any rate, chiropractors are often considered quacks by many because a lot claim they can cure "colds" and "fatigue" just by spinal adjustments. While those who market that are probably just marketing themselves, there actually are some merits to getting chiropractic treatments, e.g. after a car accident. Point being...don't be hatin' :p

Anyway, what a shame she's been out of the tour for so long. I hope she gets back to her old self quickly and improves her game a little more...she has pretty good potential to be Top 10.
 

edmondsm

Legend
Eastern medicine and rituals are something that the Western cultures underestimate too much, namely because a lot of it sounds like quack. I'll be honest, I'm biased as I am from India, but there is proliferous evidence of a lot of these practicies.

At any rate, chiropractors are often considered quacks by many because a lot claim they can cure "colds" and "fatigue" just by spinal adjustments. While those who market that are probably just marketing themselves, there actually are some merits to getting chiropractic treatments, e.g. after a car accident. Point being...don't be hatin' :p

Anyway, what a shame she's been out of the tour for so long. I hope she gets back to her old self quickly and improves her game a little more...she has pretty good potential to be Top 10.


Western doctors are often way too quick to cut you open. They think they can fix anything with a scalpal. They damn near paralyzed my dad trying to treat his carpal tunnel syndrome. Eastern practices and medicines should be considered more in our culture, but you shouldn't be overly dogmatic about either philosophy.
 

Tshooter

G.O.A.T.
"One of the murky grey areas of alternative medicine I guess."

You're way too kind in your description.


"Well, if it works, it works"

It's the IF that never pans out. But by then checks have been cashed and cleared and the PT Barnums of the world have moved on.
 

David L

Hall of Fame
So it seems surgery may have been unnecessary from the very beginning. I remember having what I think was a ganglion cyst in my wrist. After only one hour of tennis, I would not be able to move it, even slightly, without the pain which would last for about a month. I would play tennis again after the pain disappeared and the same thing would happen for another month. Could not eat with it, write, anything. One of the old remedies for a ganglion is to bash it with a heavy book. A few people mentioned this to me, but I was too scared to do it. Went to the doctor, had the ultrasound scan and everything, but they ultimately did not do anything and probably would have performed surgery to remove it had I persisted. They also mentioned the book remedy, but did not advice it. Eventually I just started pressing down on it with my thumb daily for some reason, until it started to get smaller and then disappeared altogether. When I next played tennis to test the waters, I expected to be out of commission for another month, but the pain never came. I was cured. Sounds like Sania may have had something similar.
 
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sureshs

Bionic Poster
"One of the murky grey areas of alternative medicine I guess."

You're way too kind in your description.


"Well, if it works, it works"

It's the IF that never pans out. But by then checks have been cashed and cleared and the PT Barnums of the world have moved on.

I have seen all sides to this. My mother suffered after being treated with Ayurvedic medicine by a quack, who cashed his check and moved on. My father claims to have been cured of typhoid as a 16 year old (when he was in a fever induced coma and given up for dead) by a few drops of medicine placed on the tongue by an Ayuvedic doctor. I have been cured by Homeopathy for a certain ailment as a boy - 2 surgeons asked us to prepare for surgery. The Homeopathic doctor asked us to give him a week. After a week, the two surgeons said they did not see any symptoms at all. In theory, the dilutions of Homeopathic medicine leave a molecule or less in a dose, so it just cannot work. I have a feeling that many of the them actually don't dilute it that much, and it is not Homeopathy in the classical sense, but herbal medicine (arnica is a common herb). The basic premise of Homeopathy (like cures like) makes no sense scientifically.

But take something like massage. Its health benefits are proven. Accupuncture is like a very pointed massage. It could work.
 

sureshs

Bionic Poster
Western doctors are often way too quick to cut you open. They think they can fix anything with a scalpal. They damn near paralyzed my dad trying to treat his carpal tunnel syndrome. Eastern practices and medicines should be considered more in our culture, but you shouldn't be overly dogmatic about either philosophy.

Eastern medicines can probably work, for many reasons. Herbs are chemicals after all, and many modern medicines are derived from herbs. So no big mystery there. Massage releases the toxins, relaxes the muscles etc - proven stuff.

The things where it gets murky are the claims about "five elements of the body" and "balance of the energies" and "chakras" and so forth. But they could be empirical ways of looking at things without the scientific complication. Psychology uses a lot of this kind of stuff - Freud's id, ego and superego as an example. There are really no such three things in the brain, but his ideas served as a "model" to use. Loosely speaking, we know now that the id maps to the limbic system, which is our evolutionary remnant from the reptilian brain, and the superego to the frontal cortex.
 

West Coast Ace

G.O.A.T.
If she still has big boobs, I approve it.
Welcome to the boards. I like your style already!

The big problem is, unless she's changed her mind, she's going to continue with the super Western forehand grip. Which makes me think it's only a matter of time until the wrist breaks down again.
 
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