This has probably been said before but !

With 3 cruciate injuries in the same season, do you think there may be a problem with training techniques, is the pitch to blame or are we just unlucky ??

 

Boots To Blame

Blades instead of studs

 

Interesting about the pitch.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article4022052.ece

 

2 of the 3 were done in match situations so i don't think its training techniques

 

It's not just footballers who damage knee ligaments.

In any sport where sudden changes of direction are needed there is a danger of the knee joint being injured. The body just wasn't designed to do some of the things we make it do. It's a common injury with dogs too but you don't see many of them wearing football boots.

Here's a link with some good info:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/health_and_fitness/4285970.stm

 

Only 1 was done in training. 1 at home. 1 at Norwich. No common theme. Just bad luck in a sport where the risk of knee injury is fairly high anyway.

 

Aye but...

The right training can strengthen the support to the knee and the wrong training can weaken the knee so it still could have had a knock-on effect.

These things might be down to pure bad luck or there may be an underlying reason. I remember ages ago, Spurs were hit with a big injury list one season. People wondered if it was their training. I seem to remember one of Souness's teams also suffering more than their fair share one season too.

 

RE: Aye but...

I was thinking down the same lines about the training, it only takes one technique to weaken the knee slightly and before you know it you have 3 out with serious knee injuries.

But you'd like to think that our coaching staff know the rights and wrongs. So maybe bad luck.

 

I did hear that Man Utd have stopped their youngsters wearing blades, have said that they must wear boots/ moulded studs and one of the Chelsea youth team coaches has said that he would rather a (club)ban be put on blades as he feels that its detrimental to the growth of the players.

 

RE: Aye but...

Which technique had you in mind which weakens the knee and which one strenghens it?</p>

The reason clubs and some Schools have banned blades is because of the nasty cuts they can cause not because of knee injuries.</p>

One of the best exercises for strenthening the knee is simply standing on one leg. It's the wobble which helps.Try doing it and closing your eyes. Crossing your arms whilst you do it is fun.
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When Ronnie Moore was at Rotherham the number of knee injuries were halved.</p>

He had them standing on one leg. That was the first time I had heard about the technique.
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It used to be knee injurys

I've played all my life, when I was younger it didn't bother me playing at oakwell, and I'd never ever had an injury till I played at oakwell later in life on the astro turf, within a month I was out with an Achilles(sp) injury. not one word of a lie.</p>

I recovered quick , 8 weeks to be right, but the ground always seemshard, no bounce in it, just my opinion.</p>

(dunno) I blame the Training pitch..</p>

 

That chartered Physio we had told me that a few years ago, with blades theres no give and the knee joints take all the hammer

 

It has and...

they weren't all cruciate injuries. Muller's wasn't for a start.