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• We're talking sports such as organized grade school, junior high, high school, and college athletics, and also backyard pickup games of volleyball, basketball, football, hockey, tennis, and soccer; recreation such as swimming, sailing, waterskiing, surfing, hunting, touring, hiking, and playground activity; and exercise such as biking, skiing, running, weightlifting, Pilates, Zumba, and Yoga.
• We humans naturally seek out sports to try to measure ourselves against our competition; look for recreational activity outside of the routines of daily living to refresh the soul; and search for exercise to enhance physical fitness and prevent the diseases of aging and affluence. All three result not only in enhanced emotional satisfaction and growth, but also in improved strength, fitness, health and wellness.
• However, as with all activities of change, there comes a risk, and in sports, recreation, and exercise there is the possibility for injury. The CDC reports that in the US more than 10,000 people receive care in emergency rooms every day associated with injuries sustained doing SRE activities, and often these injuries stop fur (Continued on page 4)
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