Alice Song, a fencer from QLD mentioned casually that she regretted fencing with a cracked rib yesterday while putting on her fencing mask. “Who could have predicted it would be this bad?” She says to fellow fencer who previously had told her it was a bad idea. “I mean, I really should have stopped fencing sooner.” She says picking up her foil.

Alice is not the only fencer afflicted with Injured Fencing Syndrome. Samon Leech a fellow fencer also fences while injured. “It all started back in 03, I was standing there on the piste thinking, wow my back hurts. The doctors told me that I should stop fencing for a few weeks and I just decided not to.” Psychologist Dr. Page said it’s a common problem affecting up to 90% of fencers. “Unfortunately fencers just like fencing, we’ve tried to get them to hate fencing with the introduction of Sabre but unfortunately it is a very masochistic population and the weapon has drawn a cult following.”

Unfortunately Dr. Page says there is no cure. It appears the only way to solve “IFS” is to eliminate injury from the sport and from the entire lives of fencers. If the fencers never get injured they’ll never develop IFS treating the cause and not the symptoms.

Next on Imperial Gazette, are fencers keeping physio’s employed? Find out if your physio is secretly encouraging fencing as a sport to ensure they have a constant stream of work.

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