Medical Staff Review

[supergeorgegraham]

Arsenal have certainly thrown much money into our Medical Team and Facilities.
Lets be honest over the last 5 years so many players have come back from Injury only to get Injured again very quickly. Mancini said that Italy is streets ahead of the Premiership in terms of Medical Services.
What do you guys think have we got a good Medical team or are they letting the players down ?
Wilshere is the latest to keep having breakdowns in his recovery.

[QuartzGooner]

We might have the best medical facilities in the world, and the best staff, but if the manager brings players back from injury too soon then all that goes to waste.
Not saying Wenger does, but just pointing out possible limits on the staff's influence.

There is also the possibility that the staff we have are great, but we do not have staff from all the right disciplines.
Do we have an Osteopath regularly working with players on anatomical adjustments to prevent injuries, or only when players require treatment for injuries?

Are the training pitches too hard?

Is pre-season training long enough?

Do the fitness coaches take a proper warm up/cool down?

For sure fitness coach Tony Colbert has reduced hernias in the squad by changing abdominal exercises, but are there further changes that need to be made?

[Revgoon89]

Maybe they need to encase the facilities in a glass dome so a gust of wind doesn't cause further breakdowns in training.

[the playing mantis]

my family knows jacks grandparents, in the hitchin area in herts. jack has said to them he was overtrained when making his come back from injury, and thats what caused him to breakdown again, overtraining pure and simple.

quelle surprise.

[Red Gunner]

Arsenal to investigate and review medical and training methods after Mesut Ozil and Aaron Ramsey injuries

Arsenal will review their medical and training methods after Mesut Ozil became the latest key player to be sidelined by a muscular injury.

German playmaker Ozil is expected to be sidelined for around a month, possibly even six weeks, with a grade two hamstring tear.

He joins Aaron Ramsey in the treatment room, with the Wales midfielder having seen his own comeback from a thigh injury ahead of Sunday's north London derby at Tottenham now put on hold.

"I am concerned that happens," Wenger said.

"If you look at our overall injury list going into such a final decisive part of the season, we have no (Jack) Wilshere, (Theo) Walcott, Ozil, Ramsey. We went to Bayern with no (Kieran) Gibbs or (Nacho) Monreal. Of course it is a concern," Wenger said.

"For some, like Walcott (knee injury), it is completely bad luck, the rest maybe we have to find out why it happened.

"We are analysing very deeply why it happened to see if there is a link between these injuries."

Ozil was substituted at half-time of Tuesday night's 1-1 draw against Bayern Munich in Germany, which followed on from an impressive display in what was set to be his comeback after recent break from action.

"He had a very good game against Everton on Saturday and I feel he was handicapped from early on in the game by this hamstring because I saw him stretching a few times," Wenger said.

"I told my physio 'is he all right because he looks to stretch his hamstring?' It looks to me that he played a long period in that first half being injured."

Wenger added: "I don't know for how long exactly he will be out, but it looks a minimum of three weeks.

"When the minimum is three weeks, the maximum is six.

"Honestly I am not specialist enough to know. It's a grade two hamstring (injury), (so) let's say four weeks."

Defender Gibbs is struggling to recover from a calf problem and Wilshere is sidelined by the fractured foot he suffered while on international duty with England.

Sweden midfielder Kim Kallstrom, though, could make a first appearance since signing on loan from Spartak Moscow now he has recovered from a back problem sustained before he joined on deadline day.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 93048.html

[Perryashburtongroves]

Can they also investigate and review the management and transfer methods, please.
Typical Wenger, blaming it on bad luck or the medical department when it's his fault that the squad is threadbare and his training methods are so antiquated that they do nothing but cause injuries.

[augie]

They can all fcuk off with their review - this is a club that has several seasons with a big number of injured players and yet we are going to investigate it now ?? Why now ? Is it because having a 42m player injured makes it more important to investigate ? Is it because the heat has been turned on wenker by that fitness expert's article in yesterdays papers ? In a nut shell it sums up wenkers management.........he is reactionary rather than proactive and is totally incapable of seeing things for himself

I would also agree with perry when he says that they should also have a review in other areas that are seriously fcuked up like scouting, coaching, contract renewals and maybe the most important investigation should focus on how a manager is allowed to be the decision maker in who is hired to be his boss Of course it goes without saying that there should be a full investigation into the lack of accountability in the club

This "investigation" is a sham cos no fcuker will be allowed in there to investigate or criticise wenker's methods

[VoiceOfReason]

Ten years too late. Wenger out.

[mcdowell42]

We can never have enough wenger out threads.

[Nos89]

The review will comprise of interviewing two people, Abou Diaby and Abou Diaby's counsellor...I think all the answers will be found there.

[falkirk goon]

Le bumhole runs the full show so it is he who should be investigated...then shown the door.The part at the end, we had a good result against bayern no we didnt we got reamed over 2legs

[Ryanswannell]

If he didn't persist with fucking crocks, that might be a start.

Diaby, Sanogo, Kalstrom, et-fucking-cetera

[northbank123]

I imagine Wenger's coaching staff will be given the same voting rights as people in Nazi Germany or North Korea - either tick the one box agreeing with him or spoil your ballot and get taken out the back with a revolver.

[TeeCee]

get taken out the back with a revolver.

Better not give the gun to Giroud.....he'll miss!! Then drop to his knees and bang the ground, look up to the sky, then pick the gun up again and miss another fucker from 2 yards!!

[robbo10]

If he didn't persist with fucking crocks, that might be a start.

Diaby, Sanogo, Kalstrom, et-fucking-cetera

But Wenger is so fucking deluded he'll tell you he bought Vieira injured and looked how he turned out.