Blood Spinning: Yes or No?

[BridgeMonkee]

Should blood spinning be legal?

Chelsea's club doctor Bryan English is to have talks with UK Sport, the organisation which administers drug testing in this country, in an effort to establish if the controversial technique of blood spinning is a legal way of treating injured players. The method has been criticised by the World Anti-Doping Agency since it emerged that the Premiership leaders were using it to treat players, including the Dutch winger Arjen Robben, to try to speed up rehabilitation after injury.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1452338,00.html

[yossarian]

Should blood spinning be legal?

Chelsea's club doctor Bryan English is to have talks with UK Sport, the organisation which administers drug testing in this country, in an effort to establish if the controversial technique of blood spinning is a legal way of treating injured players. The method has been criticised by the World Anti-Doping Agency since it emerged that the Premiership leaders were using it to treat players, including the Dutch winger Arjen Robben, to try to speed up rehabilitation after injury.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1452338,00.html



I know that one of the reasons "blood boosting" is illegal is that it's potentially dangerous.....but my understanding (that being without a medical degree) is that this is a slightly different procedure in that you're not trying to hyper-oxygenate the blood for performance purposes but rather injecting platelets to aid in healing. I'd be interested in reading medical literature on whether it's possibly dangerous before deciding whether it should be illegal.

[ValidHamilton]

I would like to see a player throw out his leg and then replace it with a robot one. We can then call him "Robo-Leg III". He would sign with Chelsea because...hell he draws fans.

http://www.menzelphoto.com/images/gallery/big/science/humanoids/gal_sci_hum_08.jpg

[Eddie26]

Thank God for Red Cards...

Anyway, it should be legal. It's no different (to me) than sleeping in hyperbaric chambers.

But I have a different opinion on steriods, I think of them the same way I think of prostitution...both SHOULD be legal. My reasoning is that you're never going to stop either from happening so you might as well deal with it. Technology is advancing so fast (in medicinal terms) that drugs are coming faster than agencies can find out about them. I am sure there are steriods out now that the gov't doesn't know about. Hell, if it wasn't for one assistant track coach for the USA, no one (including the gov't) would know about THG and all of this steriod talk would still just be rumors.

[yasik19]

Thank God for Red Cards...

Anyway, it should be legal. It's no different (to me) than sleeping in hyperbaric chambers.

But I have a different opinion on steriods, I think of them the same way I think of prostitution...both SHOULD be legal. My reasoning is that you're never going to stop either from happening so you might as well deal with it. Technology is advancing so fast (in medicinal terms) that drugs are coming faster than agencies can find out about them. I am sure there are steriods out now that the gov't doesn't know about. Hell, if it wasn't for one assistant track coach for the USA, no one (including the gov't) would know about THG and all of this steriod talk would still just be rumors.

I'm all for legalizing prostitution. Amen to that.