Injury and illness

[BazBoy]

Looking in on VFL and in regards to injured AFL players

Both Wills and Elliott line up on Sunday against Cats VFL clash

[K]

Eade:
Said it's not just fitness guy, but also rehab & medical staff ... ;
Agreed with the questioning yesterday of why Elliott started on bench after warming up;
Speculated that emotions, etc. behind Moore apparently remaining in med. room for two hours.

[I don't know about the Elliott claim... Are you really ready to play at all, if sitting on the bench is "too risky" because you'll "cool down"?]

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

Elliott's cooked, time to start looking ahead without him in the picture. As with Reid, Wells and Varcoe, just relish the odd occasion they do manage to get on the park. Problem with Elliott is that his injuries impact heavily on his major attributes, that is spring and pace. Daisy Thomas says hello

[K]

[K]

Jeff Bercovici (author of Play On):

"Trent Stellingwerff, a sports scientist and coach, had a piece of advice that I think is so simple and so powerful. He said the biggest mistake that most athletes make is they train too easy on their hard days, and too hard on their easy days.

A lot of what I learned in researching this book had to do with the evolving understanding of the dangers of fatigue and the effect that fatigue plays in promoting injuries and decreasing an athlete’s performance. When you look at the athletes who are performing better later in their careers, a lot of it is because they have a better understanding of how not to accumulate fatigue over the course of a season or a training period."


"Keith Baar, a scientist at the University of California, Davis, has shown that eating collagen — and it doesn’t seem to matter what form you eat it in, whether it’s bone broth or gelatin — can help your body do things like repair and fortify tendon tissue. Kobe Bryant would consume bone broth before many games. He had a good reason to do that: He had Achilles’ tendon injuries, and it does seem that if you want your Achilles to heal, then drinking bone broth can help.

Keith Baar even said he would tell his athletes that if you’re eating a chicken wing and you get some of that nice cartilage gristle in your teeth that you should chew that up and swallow it because it’s the same thing."


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/well/move/play-on-jeff-bercovici-sports-aging-fitness-athletes.html

[simon tonna]

^^
With that in mind I instantly thought I read somewhere here that Moore was a veggo.

[K]

Aish news: he "certainly" won't need a PCL operation now, and Walsh claims the conservative treatment plan has worked out well.

http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/video/2018-05-30/injuries-pies-add-grunt-and-class

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[K]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-18/wounded-trio-ruled-out-as-pies-play-it-safe

[K]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-22/surprise-pies-aish-drives-injured-mids-comeback

[stui magpie]

PCL reconstructions are apparently difficult and rare compared to ACL's. Rest and rehab is the preferred course of action.

If you do go the surgery route, finding a surgeon who has experience would be difficult. Glad we took the conservative route.

[Presti35]

Ok.

So how far off are Elliott, Moore, Varcoe, etc?

Is Wells any chance of playing again this year?

[choppa]

[Jezza]

[Johnno75]

This weekend is 5 weeks for Varcoe. For something considered at the time as just a strain. Anytime I hear the word hamstring at Collingwood these days you can put a line through that person for 6-8 weeks.