Photo Credit: Marcel Strauss Football or ‘Soccer’ is the world’s most popular sport. There are over 240 million registered players worldwide and many more recreational football players. Most football injuries affect the lower extremities, which are defined as the groin and pelvis, hip and thigh, knee, calf, foot and ankle. Research shows that most football … Read more
Bob Ward is the chief physiotherapist at Middlesbrough Football Club. In his time at Boro’, the club have developed a state of the art training facility, complete with a fully up to date medical department. Probably more than any other physiotherapist he has had to deal with the comings and goings of numerous foreign players, … Read more
In a survey of injuries at a professional football club, it was reported that 26.8% of all injuries involved muscles and tendons (Lewin,1989). Muscles and their tendon attachments combine to form what are known as musculo-tendinous units. These musculo-tendinous units provide the force which is necessary for movement. Football is a dynamic sport which requires … Read more
Bruce Reider MD and Kurt E. Jacobson MD from AJSM December 2004, Volume 32, Issue 8. Jack C. Hughston, MD, orthopaedist, founder of the Hughston Clinic, and one of the pioneers in the field of sports medicine, died September 6, 2004, at his home in Columbus, Georgia, after a 3-year battle with cancer. Hughston, 87, … Read more
Professor Maffulli has had more than 300 articles published in peer reviewed journals on various aspects of trauma and orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine and sports traumatology. One of his clinical specialties is the treatment of overuse tendon conditions. Here he brings clarity to an historically confusing condition and in doing so explains logical treatment plans … Read more
The PhysioRoom.com Prognostic Indicator provides a straightforward guide to how long sports people can be expected to be out of action when injured. Please note :The times given are intended as a guide only and represent the ‘textbook’ injury. It should be remembered that there is no such thing as a typical injury and the … Read more
During the last ten years Dr Stone and his colleagues, at The Stone Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis Research, have been using a pioneering technique for Articular Cartilage Transplantation. This procedure is appropriate for patients who have focal areas of damage to the articular cartilage of the knee joints. Often, this damage represents the … Read more
Dr Mike Langran is the UK ‘s leading authority on snow sports injury and prevention. He is Director of the Scottish Snow Sports Safety Study, an executive committee member of the British Association of Ski Patrollers and both Board member and UK National Secretary of the International Society for Skiing Safety (ISSS). Dr Langran is … Read more
As the Chief Physiotherapist at Manchester United, Rob Swire is the man that the likes of Giggs, Beckham, Veron et al turn to when they have injury problems. Rob has been at United since the early nineties and during that time the team has dominated English football. Name: Rob Swire Born: 1965 Where did you train and … Read more
John Orchard is a sports physician and sports injury researcher based in Sydney, Australia. He is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr Orchard is Medical Director for the Sydney Roosters Rugby League Football Club. He is Injury Survey Co-ordinator for … Read more