Comments on: Acute Injury Management http://www.swoopercoach.com.au/2007/acute-injury-management/ AFL Coaching, AFL Coaching Drills by John Northey Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:51:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: grant http://www.swoopercoach.com.au/2007/acute-injury-management/comment-page-1/#comment-2 grant Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:51:43 +0000 http://swoopercoachcomau.ascetinteractive.com.au/?p=83#comment-2 I have found that when my 17 year old son rolled his ankle 4 weeks out from the start of footy finals, I took 2 days off work and we did the RICER for 2 days every 2 hrs. He was walking with crutches at this stage). I then took him to an older man (85 plus)who uses Muscle Manipulation Therapy. His therapy works on the basis that all muscles and tendons etc have a track that they sit in, and when you roll your ankle etc these all get moved out of their tracks, so even after the RICER treatment and physio etc, this doesn't phyically move and realign the muscles and tendons. Consequently you tend to still have pain and maybe a limp as well, well afterwards. He did his manipulation by 10-15 min of using a 9Volt unit with 2 pads, one on his thigh and the other on his foot, that made his muscles in his leg go into contraction(pulsing mode). Then he manipulated the tendons from under my sons thigh muscle all the way down to his ankle then did the ankle muscles etc, then did another 10-15 min session with his foot in a bucket of warm water that had one pad in the water and the other pad on his thigh.(Continuos mode) After this treatment, he strapped his ankle with 2 figure 8 straps, and he was able to walk with little or no pain. He trained the next day. He did play in the 2nd semifinal, but hurt the same ankle when someone blocked his kick of the boot. I took him back to have more treatment, as he found that he couldn't kick very far as it hurt. The old man found that my son couldn't flex his foot down fully because 2 tendons that run down the front of the leg and into the ankle were crossed over, which was evident by a lump. He did the same treatment and then manipulated the tendons back into place. No more lump. My son then could flex his foot completely. He played in the Grand final but unfortunately lost. He has treated SANFL players as well as #1 World Male Tennis Player and #1 World Women Tennis Player. I have found that when my 17 year old son rolled his ankle 4 weeks out from the start of footy finals, I took 2 days off work and we did the RICER for 2 days every 2 hrs. He was walking with crutches at this stage). I then took him to an older man (85 plus)who uses Muscle Manipulation Therapy. His therapy works on the basis that all muscles and tendons etc have a track that they sit in, and when you roll your ankle etc these all get moved out of their tracks, so even after the RICER treatment and physio etc, this doesn’t phyically move and realign the muscles and tendons. Consequently you tend to still have pain and maybe a limp as well, well afterwards. He did his manipulation by 10-15 min of using a 9Volt unit with 2 pads, one on his thigh and the other on his foot, that made his muscles in his leg go into contraction(pulsing mode). Then he manipulated the tendons from under my sons thigh muscle all the way down to his ankle then did the ankle muscles etc, then did another 10-15 min session with his foot in a bucket of warm water that had one pad in the water and the other pad on his thigh.(Continuos mode) After this treatment, he strapped his ankle with 2 figure 8 straps, and he was able to walk with little or no pain. He trained the next day. He did play in the 2nd semifinal, but hurt the same ankle when someone blocked his kick of the boot.
I took him back to have more treatment, as he found that he couldn’t kick very far as it hurt. The old man found that my son couldn’t flex his foot down fully because 2 tendons that run down the front of the leg and into the ankle were crossed over, which was evident by a lump. He did the same treatment and then manipulated the tendons back into place. No more lump. My son then could flex his foot completely.
He played in the Grand final but unfortunately lost.

He has treated SANFL players as well as #1 World Male Tennis Player and #1 World Women Tennis Player.

]]>