Injury Prevention

[bmorefan444]

I'll start off by saying that injuries always have and always will be a part of contract sports, but it seems that some of these injuries are preventable.  I'm not talking about head injuries.  The media has placed enough pressure on the NFL to take action on those.  I'm talking about muscle, ligament, and tendon injuries that seem to pile up every year.  We are 5 weeks in and we've lost Suggs, Camp, Elam, and Davis for the year.  Canty, Perriman, and Doom have also suffered ligament/tendon/muscle injuries.  

 

I'm aware that some other teams have it worse than us, but my question is, do the Ravens and other NFL teams have biomechanist and training staff that focus on fixing movement dysfunction and preventing injuries?  Do they fund research to discover other factors that may lead them to believe a player has X% chance of being injured.  Considering the investment teams make for their players, the obvious answer would be "yes", but then look at a player like RG3, a #2 overall pick.  Not only did he have a history of injuries coming into the league, but look at this picture from the 2012 Combine. 

 

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Those mechanics are just ugly and any sophomore student of exercise science could tell you that he is at risk of an ACL. I understand the Redskins aren't the best franchise to make an example out of, but there were many other teams willing to draft this guy if he was available.  

 

Maybe there are other factors including player personality, balance, reaction time, genetics, biomechanics, that teams should be looking at before investing so much in a player that could end up on the bench making millions.  

 

 

[izvoodoo]

Well, the most injuries you get the more you get injured.  Players have to play more snaps, have a higher risk of injury.  Also tire and get hurt more.  

[RaineV1]

Yeah, rotating people in and out is important when possible (can't really do that with the qb and o-line though). I know the more flexible someone is the less likely they'll get hurt, so if there's a way to improve flexibility that could help.

[Cillmatic]

Maybe it's time to look at the trainers and conditioners...

[bmorefan444]

Yeah, rotating people in and out is important when possible (can't really do that with the qb and o-line though). I know the more flexible someone is the less likely they'll get hurt, so if there's a way to improve flexibility that could help.

 There is the stability mobility continuum.  The more flexibility or mobility (not exactly interchangeable words), the greater chance you have of injury.  However, if the player is too rigid and inflexible, they won't be very functional on the field.  There is a happy medium and it should be different with each position group. 

[Inqui]

I remember the year the Eagles made the playoffs (might have been the year before. Anyway) they didn't do any tackling drills and had a fantastic run without injuries due to the reduced contact the players received. Dunno if something like that would work for us - I mean, it can't make us worse at tackling, right?

[GrimCoconut]

The best way to prevent injuries is to not play so you can avoid them. #JohnMaddenMoment

[allblackraven]

I remember the year the Eagles made the playoffs (might have been the year before. Anyway) they didn't do any tackling drills and had a fantastic run without injuries due to the reduced contact the players received. Dunno if something like that would work for us - I mean, it can't make us worse at tackling, right?

Not an option for us - Pees said the other day we don't do full contact tackling drills at practice.

[OLD SCHOOL SMASH BALL]

Go back to natural grass, turf sucks

[K-Dog]

I blame the snack bar at the castle.

They serve soda.  They should serve milk only since milk is WAY better for your bones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes I am kidding.

[rmcjacket23]

Maybe it's time to look at the trainers and conditioners...

Maybe its time to look at the players, since they are in 100% control of such things.

[GrimCoconut]

Maybe its time to look at the players, since they are in 100% control of such things.

Or we could blame genetics, or the doctors for not foreseeing into the future that these guys would become injured. I personally blame the sibyl from whom it is clear we are getting our intel. It's time to fire her and get a new one because she's giving us all the bad info.