Hamstring injuries

[donsdaft]

The perennial curse of Aberdeen Football Club.

Isn't it about time we sorted it out?

I fully accept that the highlights of my own football career were played out on the football pitches of Hazlehead and Sheddocksly but I was young, I was fit, I was even slim and had hair.

In my day a hamstring injury was deemed as self inflicted, you hadn't warmed up properly.
All hamstring injuries occurred in the first 10 minutes of games.

I'm not going to accuse AFC of not getting the players to warm up so what's the problem?

My money's on the Gym

Either over development of other muscles or work on the hamstring itself.

Far too much "bulking up" work is done, it's all but destroyed the fast "wee winger" which is a disaster for football as far as being an entertainment is concerned.

Back to the hamstring, one of my most hated modern football phrases is now in the sentence

We decided not to risk playing him because he "felt his hamstring"

Although it is obviously better not to play someone who is only going to make an injury worse, how about sorting the problem out in the first place?

[Devanha Red]

It is a strange one. Agree totally about the "bulking up" as well. It's a strange paradox but imho for all the fancy dan gym stuff, tracking gadgetry, dietary capers, sports psychiatry, increased squad numbers etc., etc., football is actually regressing rather than progressing.

Wish we could get back to basics.

[TheRedMax]

Sometimes it's something anatomical that isn't picked up.
The Dons have previous in this regard, Scott Booth had persistent muscular problems when he was with The Dons, within a few weeks after moving to FC Twente they discovered that he had one leg marginally shorter than the other, stuck an insole in his football boot, hey presto, no more pulled "hammys".

[Stavros39]

And it's not just hamstrings, but you have to look at this and think something isn't right, we get far to many injuries compared to other teams!! Poor training to much gym work? Fevk knows but its fkn annoying and imo were a bit ****ed defensively atm

[Pacman1903]

Sometimes it's something anatomical that isn't picked up.
The Dons have previous in this regard, Scott Booth had persistent muscular problems when he was with The Dons, within a few weeks after moving to FC Twente they discovered that he had one leg marginally shorter than the other, stuck an insole in his football boot, hey presto, no more pulled "hammys".

Good factage min. I like it

[DJR1979]

Good factage min. I like it

Was there not a similar story about a Aberdeen player that kept pulling is groin. He was assessed in Wales and it turned out a broken jaw as a child hadn't healed in the correct position, they reset the jaw and no more groin issue. I can't remember who it was right enough

[InversneckieDob]

The story was that Pawlett was a perennial hammy sufferer until Kirk got him doing extra core exercises which seemed to sort it.

I was talking to a jooooot I know this week and he referred to Pawlett as "sick note".

[InversneckieDob]

Was there not a similar story about a Aberdeen player that kept pulling is groin. He was assessed in Wales and it turned out a broken jaw as a child hadn't healed in the correct position, they reset the jaw and no more groin issue. I can't remember who it was right enough

You hear about loads of stuff like that.
A pal of mine had bother with his knee for donkeys, had all-sorts done including surgery.

It turned out, according to a physio, he'd been walking funny since and ankle injury as a youngster and this had put his posture all to cock, which was what was causing his knee issues.

To the original hammy point, yoga and Pilates.

[Shetland Don]

You hear about loads of stuff like that.
A pal of mine had bother with his knee for donkeys, had all-sorts done including surgery.

It turned out, according to a physio, he'd been walking funny since and ankle injury as a youngster and this had put his posture all to cock, which was what was causing his knee issues.

To the original hammy point, yoga and Pilates.

No wonder he had issues with his knee as he should have had a human knee and not a donkey’s one! I assume, nonetheless, that he scored a lot of backheel goals when he wasn’t making an ass of himself.

[rico94]

Sometimes it's something anatomical that isn't picked up.
The Dons have previous in this regard, Scott Booth had persistent muscular problems when he was with The Dons, within a few weeks after moving to FC Twente they discovered that he had one leg marginally shorter than the other, stuck an insole in his football boot, hey presto, no more pulled "hammys".

Until he returned to Pittodrie then he was on the treatment table more than he was on the pitch.