[MondayBlues]

I don't understand why a doctor on the WTA tour would take blood and then re-inject it. They would have to know that's blood doping.

That's what I was thinking JT. Because from the report...it sounded like she had this done during the tourney Methinks the doctor should be penalized, not the player.

And doctors who treat professional athletes have lists of banned substances and procedures that are allowed / not allowed don't they?

And...if Gasquet is gonna get off with cocaine hanging over his head....so should Paszek who did nothing wrong.

[insightmike]

The disciplinary committee of Austria's anti-doping agency decided that Tamira Paszek should not be blamed for the blood reinjection, even though the treatment was illegal.

In July, the 18-year-old Paszek’s blood was taken for enrichment and later reinjected in her lower back. The procedure of reinjecting one's own blood is considered a violation of anti-doping rules.

Tamira Paszek has ended her season in August, because of the injury. Actually, she hasn’t played since retiring in the Wimbledon opening round. http://www.womenstennisblog.com/2009...gal-treatment/

[Hujkmlopes]

Some good news for Tamira and her fans. This should mean we will see her in NY, if her back holds up:


The Austrian player Tamira Paszek will not be suspended while officials investigate whether a medical treatment she received for a back injury violated doping regulations.

The disciplinary committee of Austria’s antidoping agency said Friday that Paszek could play on the WTA Tour at least until a verdict is reached in about seven weeks. The agency had sought to temporarily bar her.

Last month, Paszek, 18, had blood taken for homeopathic enrichment and reinjected into her lower back. Reinjecting one’s blood is banned under international antidoping rules.

Paszek’s lawyer, Michael Barnay, said Friday that the treatment did not violate national antidoping laws or the World Anti-Doping Association code.





http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/sp.../09tennis.html

[Agitoligflise]

homeopathic enrichment

The hell is that? Did they dilute something in her blood until it was chemically impossible to have one molecule left and then said it was ok because the blood has memory?

[Hujkmlopes]

The hell is that? Did they dilute something in her blood until it was chemically impossible to have one molecule left and then said it was ok because the blood has memory?

I don't know that we had the discussion of the exact nature of the treatment, Headcase. Interestingly, the Philadelphia Inquirer had a long article about this procedure this morning (they did not mention Tamira, and the fact that the ITF considers the treatment doping, however). Apparently becoming a very popular way to promote faster healing, they extract everything from your blood except the platelets, and then reinject the platelets into the area where there are problems. It's a pretty interesting procedure.

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Athletes and others swear by a European treatment that heals damaged tissue by injecting their own plasma, rich in healing platelets.
By Robert Strauss
For The Inquirer

Jon Dorenbos was at a spring practice suffering from one of his bouts with long-snapper's elbow. The Philadelphia Eagles center, whose specialty is the long centering pass to punters and placekickers, often got severe discomfort in his left elbow from those repeated hard flicks in practice and in games.

The technical term is medial epicondylitis, and while it can afflict almost anyone's funny bone, it can be excruciating for athletes who make their living doing such irregular motions.

"We tried rehab stuff, strengthening the muscles around it," said Dorenbos. "Then I would get cortisone shots, which work for a while, but then you have to get another one when the discomfort comes back."

When it happened again this year, Eagles team physician Peter DeLuca suggested to Dorenbos that he try a procedure used in Europe that Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie had read about and asked DeLuca to look into - platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy.

A medical team extracts a small amount of the patient's blood and has it spun in a centrifuge to separate out the platelets. The technicians then inject a teaspoon or more of concentrated platelets back into the sore tendon, muscle, or bone to speed the healing process.

Rest of article: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/healt...d_therapy.html

[MondayBlues]

If that's what Paszek had done, I don't see how that constitutes "blood doping". In blood doping, it's the "added" ingredients or the re-oxygenizing of the blood that makes it doping. In this instance....they took her bood out and re-injected her blood with nothing added to it.........

The ITF is probably going to take a good long hard look at this procedure.....

[Agitoligflise]

I don't know that we had the discussion of the exact nature of the treatment, Headcase. Interestingly, the Philadelphia Inquirer had a long article about this procedure this morning (they did not mention Tamira, and the fact that the ITF considers the treatment doping, however). Apparently becoming a very popular way to promote faster healing, they extract everything from your blood except the platelets, and then reinject the platelets into the area where there are problems. It's a pretty interesting procedure.

Thanks for the article. So that's what it's called, I was googling for homeopathic enrichment and nothing came up. I don't see how this procedure has anything to do with homeopathy, I assume it's either a bad translation or they are combing the two by enriching the blood with magic water, in which case there wouldn't be any detectable substance left in her blood anyway. Like missinandre, I don't see how it constitutes doping either way.