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Peter Sullivan (51)
Reading this article on Scrum.com : http://www.scrum.com/scotland/rugby/story/121501.html
...got me wondering: is it a reasonable conclusion that in the not too distant future, players may annually undergo operations on typically troublesome joints, even if there is no injury, to have them (as the article puts it) "seen to"?
For instance, take a player who has a history of knee problems. I'm not a surgeon, and I have only a basic knowledge of knee surgery, but is it so far-fetched that a player fininshes a season uninjured but has some sort of a "precautionary analysis" of typically troublesome areas? Something like a "circumspective arthroscope"?
Off-seasons are getting shorter, and as Morrison notes in his article players have a very short amount of down time. But this sort of a system, whereby players have minimally invasive, precautionary check ups, is the sort of thing that will, in my view, make it easier for players to meet the increasing demands of professional rugby.
...got me wondering: is it a reasonable conclusion that in the not too distant future, players may annually undergo operations on typically troublesome joints, even if there is no injury, to have them (as the article puts it) "seen to"?
For instance, take a player who has a history of knee problems. I'm not a surgeon, and I have only a basic knowledge of knee surgery, but is it so far-fetched that a player fininshes a season uninjured but has some sort of a "precautionary analysis" of typically troublesome areas? Something like a "circumspective arthroscope"?
Off-seasons are getting shorter, and as Morrison notes in his article players have a very short amount of down time. But this sort of a system, whereby players have minimally invasive, precautionary check ups, is the sort of thing that will, in my view, make it easier for players to meet the increasing demands of professional rugby.
