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4 minutes ago, spudski said:

The Club said he had fluid drained from his knee then an ankle injury just before the Reading game. Seems a bit odd.

Exactly, I recurring injury is understandable but there's now been.. 4? minor problems that've apparently kept him out.

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Sometimes you've got to take a gamble in football. Hopefully this one still comes off. He's only on a year contract. Football is a tough mistress. Can happen to any player..at any time. Look at Bolaise and the money spent on him. Look at what we had with Adam El Abd...not even an injury but a 'falling out'.

We've done pretty well as a Club over the last couple seasons with recruitment and injuries...so it's not a massive problem. Just a shame, both for the Club and Joel and the fans...as we all know what a talent he is.

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59 minutes ago, Gazred said:

He wasn't signed to keep the treatment table warm.

True ,according to a club source , he was signed to keep his fellow countryman Engvall company

 

in the treatment room !

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Maybe that's the issue with the new changing rooms, they've had to pinch some room for a Swedish Casualty Bay !!

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This made me think of an article I read today...very apt...

In between this month’s football fixtures, fans will spend plenty of time fretting about injuries. And with good reason: as much as how a team actually performs in December, whether or not they emerge from the month ravaged by injuries can define a season. 23 injuries on average

The average Premier League team has 23 injuries per season lasting at least 14 days. If a team can mitigate its injury toll, it provides a chance for them to outperform other far wealthier opponents: one crucial factor in Leicester City’s staggering Premier League title win. In the Premier League, there was a 52 per cent rise in injuries from 2011-2016 For all that Arsenal fans moan about the team’s injury curses, debilitating injuries are becoming more common in sport. In the Premier League, there was a 52 per cent rise in injuries from 2011-2016, according to Kitman Labs, a sports science company.

Collisions have risen The spike in injuries is a product of on-field competition intensifying. Players have become far fitter without the size of sports pitches increasing: that means that the chances of dangerous collisions have risen, and the time that players hold the ball in space without being under contact from an opponent is decreasing. The emphasis on strength has also had some undesirable results: players are stronger than ever, but it doesn’t follow that this will make them less vulnerable to injuries. And the preponderance of injuries is surely exacerbated, too, by the short-termism endemic in professional sport.

If you are a Premier League manager not named Arsène Wenger, you now only last a year in the job. Amid such incessant pressure, there is no incentive for a manager to coax a player gently through his return from injury Amid such incessant pressure, there is no incentive for a manager to coax a player gently through his return from injury while he misses crucial games in the meantime. Big data is changing the nature of sport, both on and off the field.

Perhaps nowhere is this more important than in injury prevention. Cost efficient Reducing the days lost to injury is the most cost-efficient way of changing a losing team to a winning one, which is why sports scientists now analyse everything from training regimes to optimal amounts of sleep, to make players the least vulnerable they can be to injury. Sports science in team games remains less advanced than it could be, largely because of the problem of sample size.

Premier League clubs could pool their data on injuries to increase their knowledge of how best to recognise when a player is most susceptible, but they are hardly going to share such information with one another. The medical information that we’re holding within each team is just far too small Stephen Smith, chief executive of Kitman Labs “The medical information that we’re holding within each team is just far too small,” says Stephen Smith, the chief executive of Kitman Labs. His company pools data from a range of teams, across 17 different professional sports leagues, to overcome the sample size problem and make players less vulnerable to injuries. Injury prevention techniques can often be a case study of how, in misusing statistics, teams can end up being worse off than if they had ignored them altogether.

Some teams have implemented cack-handed injury prevention techniques – like reducing training time by a third to help keep their players on the pitch. By doing this at a point when players were not at particular risk of injury, the teams haven’t made the players less susceptible to getting injured. All they have ended up doing is undermining the team because of reduced time training.

They’re holding themselves back a lot. They are missing 35 per cent of training sessions because some number tells you that they shouldn’t be put out there. That’s a huge amount of opportunity to make athletes better they’re missing out on Stephen Smith, chief executive of Kitman Labs “They’re holding themselves back a lot,” says Smith. “They are missing 35 per cent of training sessions because some number tells you that they shouldn’t be put out there. That’s a huge amount of opportunity to make athletes better they’re missing out on.” Making things worse At its worst, then, injury prevention can bring a team’s performances down, not up. “Many of the teams we walk into now, because there is so much information, have no idea what to do with it,” Smith says. He believes that “more often than not” teams who start using sports science data can lose more than they gain because of misinterpreting the statistics and being overwhelmed by them.

Yet shrewd analysis of when training can be increased without increasing injury risk can give a team much more time to work together on the training ground. In rugby union, Kitman Labs has found that some teams could train 60 per cent more without making them more susceptible to injury. Over a season that would amount to hundreds of hours, giving sides a crucial competitive advantage. In the NBA, 63 per cent of injuries – equating to $8.1 million per team, per year, in salaries for players stuck in the treatment room – are for avoidable ruptures and strains Kitman Labs has found that teams it works with have seen their days lost to injury reduced by 41 per cent per season.

In the NBA, 63 per cent of injuries – equating to $8.1 million per team, per year, in salaries for players stuck in the treatment room – are for avoidable ruptures and strains. An extra $8.1 million a year translates to an average of 20 per cent more wins per season.

These are staggering numbers. As Billy Beane, the star of Moneyball, now says: “Staying healthy is the new efficiency.” If it is done right, injury prevention is not just another marginal gain. It is much more important than that.

 

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40 minutes ago, Nongazeuse said:

Keep up chaps - he's just played a whole game vs Cheltenham behind closed doors at Failand.

See quote from Club site :"Johnson added that Joel Ekstrand appears to have made a “miraculous” recovery after having fluid drained from his knee recently."
 
 

 

 

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