Injury Time

We discussed Gabriel's groin injury playing for Brazil, and lead into how to manage a Premier League club with multiple international players. What's it like dealing with the different national teams? Also, can a club really just "pretend" that a player has an injury? Finally what's it like managing all that travel?

This week, we talk about Virgil Van Dyk "interfering" with the medical team at Brentford and how to manage that as a medic and also delve into how to manage players when therre are a lot of games with players in the "red zone"

This week, we talk about what the medical setup is for a medical emergency in the crowd. We talk about Martin Odegaard's injury last weekend and talk about player workload with the Premier League players away on International Duty.

In this episode, we talk about the tragic death of Billy Vigar who died colliding with a concrete wall around a football pitch. We discuss how football seems to be slow to react to player safety, in contrast to other sports.

This week, we talk about Odegaard's shoulder injury and what his likely treatment is. The main topic of conversation is what happens to the healthcare of ex-professional footballers? Who looks after a player who has had access to the best specialists that money can buy after they retire?

In this episode, we talk initially about the fact that Shabaaz was the team doctor at Spurs, so we talk about Daniel Levy, Saliba's ankle injury, what happens when someone is injured in the warm up, who makes the call? Finally witht he WSL starting we talk Women's injuries, in particular ACL - why are they more common and can anything be done about it?

In this episode, we talk initially about "runs" or clusters of injuries at a football club. WHat do we think is the cause? What can be done about it? We also talk about the decision to opt for surgery. Who make the call? Is surgery always the best option?

This week we talked about some of the recent Arsenal injuries and why clubs are not very transparent about what the injury is and how long they will be out. We also talk about the relationship between the club doctor and the International team docctors. Do please send questions to theinjurytimepod@gmail.com

Chris Woakes has dislocated his left shoulder playing cricket for England. In this episode we discuss why and how a shoulder dislocates and whether we think he will be fit for the Ashes this winter.

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