>>> Paul Sumner 03/15/00 10:51AM >>>
Having worked in a pro-soccer club for 4 seasons I appreciate the pressure you may have in returning this player.
Have you thought that 5 weeks is still early days in the rehab of a 2 joint musle. Think of Stan Collymore at Nottm Forest and Michael Owen's recent on - off return and re-injury. I believe you would be better reassuring the player that healing can take up to 12 weeks? and that this secondary pain could well be a secondary hyperalgesia, warning that things are going too fast. With the recent debate on spinal pschology in mind it is important to reassure the player that he will get better but to "push the rehab" too soon may well be detrimental, increase the risk of secondary problems and further frustration and most of all blaming of the physio!!
PAUL SUMNER Cornwall uk
>>> <[log in to unmask]> 03/13/00 08:39PM >>>
I have a semi-pro footballer who is returning to full training after
approximately 5 weeks out with a strain to the Biceps Femoris. We have gone
through all the necessary extensibility and strength exercises, together with
an amount of functional work. When we have asked the player to step his
training up to include three-quarter and full pace running, he feels a
tightness close to the origin of his hamstring. The original injury was
mid-belly. All the signs of extensibility and strength are good.
Could anybody suggest what the problem may be and how it can best be
addressed?
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