027. Managing sports injuries with Dr Nathan Gibbs
Physio Edge podcast with David Pope
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The Importance of MRI in Hamstring Injury Prevention
The AFL has a big interest in research and injury prevention. 30 percent of the players who had sudden onset acute hamstring pain tenderness restricted flexibility were normal on MRI. The bigger tears took longer to get better you probably didn't expect that however we could nearly measure the recovery time based on the length of intramuscular damage on the MRI so it could actually help us in telling coaches well this looks like a six-week recovery or three-week recovery. It is quite a confusing topic but also in the study part the MRI positive hamstring tears as you'd expect are very common.
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