Pepper’s heart was pounding, she was waiting for Francie to pick up his phone. With every ring her mind waterfalled out of control, she wondered if she had messed everything up, her dreams, the perfect job opportunity? The phone rang out, Francie didn’t answer, she sank deeper into her chair. How will she tell the Gaffer that Francie is not coming back to the club? The thought of going back into Jock´s office, was not something she particularly wanted to do. Pepper anxiously scrutinised Francie´s notes from earlier but couldn’t make head nor tail from what she had written. The missing information from her history taking and poor physical examination […]
Category: Sports Injury
70 is the new 40
We seem to live in a world where the accepted norm is that we should do less as we grow older. Increasing age is matched with decreasing activity levels and a mindset that somehow doing less will be better for us!!! The reality is that moving less as you grow older will not prevent or reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, dementias, osteoarthritis or other systemic diseases such as diabetes and obesity. In fact, moving less is probably going to increase your chances of having to live with one or more of these diseases. Maybe, it’s just me but I have come across quite a number of people who wear […]
Chapter 2: In The Shadows
Picture by: manu mangalassery, Pexels Francie’s dream of playing for Manchester United sprouted the day his dad gave him his first football shirt. Now he eats, drinks, sleeps football, almost to the point that it is unhealthy, almost to the point that his dad wished he never introduced him to it. On the other hand, it is a passion they share, a bond through which they show their love for each other. At times Francie’s passion resembles a glinting sparkle in his eye filled with determination and enthusiasm; noticeable in every pass, every run, every win. At other times it fills him with anxiety, despair, worry, resentment and anger that only […]
The Team behind The Team
The concept of this series of short stories is to illustrate how to integrate the best clinical practice, research and evidence based guidelines into every day scenarios faced by Sport & Exercise Medicine practitioners in a way not seen before. The idea is to keep the stories faced paced and entertaining, evidence informed and clinically useful. We will cover a number of injuries and scenarios throughout the series from a number of different perspectives: physio / doctor / sports therapist / surgeon / player / manager / etc. The first story focuses on the trials and tribulations of two people from polarising backgrounds, but with a similar dream, and who […]
Chapter 1 – The Adventures of the Great Francie McGroin
Chapter 1: Francie & Pepper In his mind, he feared the worst, his season, his career, his professional contract hopes had all been destroyed before it has even started. He was destined for the knife, but desperately longed for a fairytale ending…… Francie, has just turned 17 years old, although you wouldn’t be blamed for mistaking him to be no more than 14 summers. He is considerably smaller than the other boys on the team. He is of the quietish type, very respectful to his coaches and plays more of a supporting role in the team rather than that of the central character. He has just finished the first year […]
