Injuries - is it our trainer?

If you ask Brad Thorn what he thinks is key to staying injury free he will tell you flexibility is somewhere near the top. We all know how well he's done to stay relatively injury free for and old bastard playing rugby so it must have some merit.

Talked to my sister in law who's a sports physio today. She reckons the Nix injury problems.....especially the soft tissue injuries like adductors, groins and hammies are not really the fault of the current trainer. Probably more the fault of the wrong sort or lack of proper muscle conditioning preseason. Chances are with little or no backroom staff for much of the off season the guys did not get enough proper muscle conditioning or the wrong sort. So if you go into tough match conditions where you are continualy making explosive fast movements and your muscle ratio's flexibilty etc are all out of whack then you will get injuries. Just goes to show those guys in the tracksuits shouting their heads off at training are really quite important.