LOMBALGIAS NO TENISTA (1)É conhecido o exemplo desse grande campeão André Agassi e o que sofreu da coluna lombar nos últimos anos da sua brilhante e única carreira.
" Andre Agassi's Battle With Back Pain
After fighting painful, chronic back pain for years, tennis great Andre Agassi retires from the court and prepares to serve up the next chapter of his life. Agassi, 36, had announced his retirement six weeks before, at Wimbledon. Though many factors influenced his decision, "I can't suggest that the pain didn't play a big part," he says.
After fighting painful, chronic back pain for years, tennis great Andre Agassi retires from the court and prepares to serve up the next chapter of his life. Agassi, 36, had announced his retirement six weeks before, at Wimbledon. Though many factors influenced his decision, "I can't suggest that the pain didn't play a big part," he says.
"It starts with your body and moves to your mind."
"The 36-year-old informed organizers that he would not be able to play due to his chronic back pain problem" era a noticia mais frequente nos últimos anos da brilhante carreira.
Asked how long he'd been suffering from back problems, he thought for a moment before timing it to a milestone in his life: his son's birth. Five years ago.
"It was a physical issue that grew to be a real physical concern," Agassi says of the degenerative disc disease spondylolisthesis, which caused one of the vertebrae in his lower back to slip out of place. As the disease progressed, the disc began pinching his sciatic nerve, a condition called sciatica that causes low back pain that shoots down the leg. By the end of the Open, even the injections of cortisone and other anti-inflammatories that he'd been taking since March could no longer help.
Raul Oliveira
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