We haven’t even reached Christmas and already there is devastating news for some players.
News that David Rodan has done an ACL in an innocuous handball drill is very sad. Rodan is one of aussierulesblog’s favourite players and we wish him a successful recovery and return to AFL in 2011.
The news does prompt us to wonder whether modern players’ bodies are too highly stressed. It’s understandable when we see a knee pushed and pulled in unnatural directions and an ACL diagnosis results. All too often recently, it seems, ACL injuries are the result of apparently-innocuous, single-player events.
As a Bombers fan, the one that comes most clearly to mind is David Hille’s injury in the early stages of the 2009 Anzac Day clash. Hille, twenty metres clear of any opponent and not under pressure in any way, takes a medium-sized leap to mark a pass from a teammate and, upon landing, immediately clutches his knee.
Matthew Richardson’s ACL injury in 1996 (I think), was similarly innocuous.
In the quest for ever-greater levels of fitness and agility, perhaps we are driving these human bodies to breaking point?
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Dangerously innocuous
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We haven’t even reached Christmas and already there is devastating news for some players. News that David Rodan has done an ACL in an innocuous handball drill is very sad. Rodan is one of aussierulesblog’s favourite players and we wish him a successful recovery and return to AFL in 2011.
The news does prompt us to wonder whether modern players’ bodies are too highly stressed. It’s understandable when we see a knee pushed and pulled in unnatural directions and an ACL diagnosis results. All too often recently, it seems, ACL injuries are the result of apparently-innocuous, single-player events.
As a Bombers fan, the one that comes most clearly to mind is David Hille’s injury in the early stages of the 2009 Anzac Day clash. Hille, twenty metres clear of any opponent and not under pressure in any way, takes a medium-sized leap to mark a pass from a teammate and, upon landing, immediately clutches his knee.
Matthew Richardson’s ACL injury in 1996 (I think), was similarly innocuous.
In the quest for ever-greater levels of fitness and agility, perhaps we are driving these human bodies to breaking point?
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