Re-injuries

[AmericanWolf]

I know we don't know exactly what happened with Kightly here, whether it was still the same injury or if he just did the same thing over again in training. What I'm worried about is this: we seem to get a lot of players returning to training before they're actually fit and then aggrevating existing injuries. We also seem to get a lot of players playing injured without necessarily knowing about it (Seyi's back fracture that "nobody noticed" and that he played through for a year or more comes to mind). When players get injured, why aren't they getting X-rays and MRI's as a matter of course? These are extremely expensive, extremely well-paid club assets, and I feel like we're treating their injuries as if they were playing for their school team. A player coming back from an injury shouldn't be so much as near a football pitch without a scan of the injured area, but the only time our players seem to go in for scans is when they first injure themselves or if they're not "recovering quickly".

When I used to play for my primary school (stupid example, I know), I developed a serious problem in my left foot's growth plate. Out for a month while I wore this weird brace, felt fine, did some running again, felt fine, then went back out on the field and within ten minutes I was back on crutches again for another month. What I'm trying to say is that just because something feels fine, doesn't mean it is fine, and if we're trusting our players to self-diagnose and not getting regular scans for our injured players to see what's going on I think it might be time for some serious changes in our treatment room or treatment policy.

[Moli]

some players return to train because they just want to play, some return because the player in thier spot is playing well so they rush back early .... either way as a club we are shafted because return to training is almost entirely down to the player saying he is ready after the physio has asked him when close to the end of any symptons.

[EasternWolf]

I know we don't know exactly what happened with Kightly here, whether it was still the same injury or if he just did the same thing over again in training. What I'm worried about is this: we seem to get a lot of players returning to training before they're actually fit and then aggrevating existing injuries. We also seem to get a lot of players playing injured without necessarily knowing about it (Seyi's back fracture that "nobody noticed" and that he played through for a year or more comes to mind). When players get injured, why aren't they getting X-rays and MRI's as a matter of course? These are extremely expensive, extremely well-paid club assets, and I feel like we're treating their injuries as if they were playing for their school team. A player coming back from an injury shouldn't be so much as near a football pitch without a scan of the injured area, but the only time our players seem to go in for scans is when they first injure themselves or if they're not "recovering quickly".

When I used to play for my primary school (stupid example, I know), I developed a serious problem in my left foot's growth plate. Out for a month while I wore this weird brace, felt fine, did some running again, felt fine, then went back out on the field and within ten minutes I was back on crutches again for another month. What I'm trying to say is that just because something feels fine, doesn't mean it is fine, and if we're trusting our players to self-diagnose and not getting regular scans for our injured players to see what's going on I think it might be time for some serious changes in our treatment room or treatment policy.

you start off by speculating - admitting you dont know - and finish by reccommending change based on that speculation. I cannot imagine its just down to the players to diagnose, but they do have to report their symptoms. I think its the same everywhere.