10/12/2020- Albion Training-3.5hrs

During the first hour, the players began to arrive at the grounds as did the coaching staff, so we started performing our covid testing to ensure everyone was safe and clear to attend training. The players that required rehab or treatment then headed down to the treatment room to commence pre-training treatment.

During my time in the treatment room, I treated two players one of which comes into the treatment room each week to have their ankle taped which has been shown in previous photos in the *photo gallery* and explained in this *post*.

The second treatment that I did during the treatment room was a back massage for one of the players, due to the increase in activity recently as we emerge from lockdown, they had been experiencing pain in their back due to excess workload. Therefore, a back massage will help to relieve stress and tension and hopefully allow them to have a decreased pain sensation and be able to feel more relaxed.

During the second hour, we were back in the gym where we completed the usual gym session and they were split into their regular groups working at the standard, decreased or increased program based on how they feel with the gym session. For this session, the therapy team tend to just supervise in case any injuries occur, but we have not had any injuries during this part of the session, yet which is a good thing as the players are only performing within their abilities.

During the final hour of the session, we proceeded to the side of the pitch while the team commended training where they performed anaerobic games and usual training of skills and drills. This session we required no interventions as there were no injuries so instead, we spoke about potential injuries that can occur during a game and how as a team we would deal with that and who would take what role in each situation. This proved to be very beneficial and comforting allowing us to know the set protocol while out on the pitch as it put things into perspective of where we would be standing and who would respond to which injuries in specific areas.