Tweet Rick posted about Michigan State gymnast Kathryn Mahoney’s injury. Kathryn sustained a serious cervical spine injury while training on Wednesday. Read more from WLNS.com.
Dr Larry Nassar of Gymnastics Doctor just posted on his Facebook page that Kathryn has had surgery and doesn’t require a second surgery as she is now in early recovery.Good news!

Gymnastics Doctor have posted a few updates regarding Kathryn. Best of luck to her.

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An official press release was published by British Gymnastics this evening. Poor Daniel Keatings has suffered a tear to his Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) whilst training this week. Daniel will under go surgery but is likely to miss the remainder of this year.

“Following the European Championships Daniel Keatings sustained an injury in training and has torn his anterior cruciate ligament. He will undergo reconstructive surgery and start a 6-9 month rehabilitation programme with his British Gymnastics medical team.”
- Pippa Bennett, Chief Medical Officer British …

Tweet As gymnasts, we all succumb to injury at some stage. Whether it’s a bruise, a bump, a scrape or break, we all suffer with an injury somehow. The question is, how do you deal with it? For those who are told they can’t attend training for a week or 2 weeks, it’s upsetting but what about those who are told that they can’t train for a longer period of time?
 
Last year, a mother of one of our gymnasts came to me asking me for advice. Her daughter had been …

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Performing a simple handspring vault, I landed incorrectly, meaning one foot took a disproportionate amount of the impact, mainly on the big toe joint from pointing my toes so much during the move. I was competing in an international friendly at the time and oddly I had complained to my coach that this vault was too easy for my level.  I almost felt like Kerri Strug in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.   I was in incredible pain but presented to the judge before hobbling off to the side. Bruising …

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Being injured is a terrible event in any athlete’s career.  One injury can jeopardise some-one’s progression in the sport or even mark the end of their career.  In gymnastics, it is so easy to get hurt. The simplest deviation of a body line can inadvertently cause great harm.
 
Types of Injuries
There are the obvious types of injuries; muscle strains and tears and broken bones.  There are also injuries that develop over a period of time (Osgood Schlatters disease for example, which occurs from a combination of factors such as …