Saturday 22nd February 2020 – 13:30 – 17:30
For today’s game I was working with the 2nd team for a home game. This was a tough game and there was a number of players that needed treatment before the game and I had to use my experience of the previous training session, from the week before, to be able to work through the players as quickly as possible so that they were ready to warm up properly for the game. I had 3 players with hamstring issues, 2 with lower back pain, and 5 needing strapping.
The on pitch treatment required included a player having been winded during a tackle, and hyper-extension of the elbow for another player. Other than that, in terms of pitchside treatment it was a relatively quiet game with minimal injuries. During today’s game I made sure to watch the game closely and follow each tackle tacking in how players entered tackles and how they were tackled to watch out for mechanisms of injury in the case that any injuries were to occur.