LInjuries are a big part of football. The necessity and the way you played leads to the maximum for the athlete. Marca wanted to press the opinion of Jess Olmo, former director of medical services at Real Madrid and current medical director of the equal movement clinic and co-founder of the Institute of football Sciences, about the threat that the appearance of injuries always poses. “There are no more injuries now than before. It is preserved. The intensity of the game continues to grow. It has become more intense, faster and with more material demand. Injuries are ongoing. The players are adapting. We are doing things better and better, but we are not able to make injuries go down. Where there are more injuries in women’s football, ” Dr. Jess Olmo told Marca.
Ask your question. The feeling is that the injuries do not stop, they appear everywhere.
The answer. It’s September and we know that there are two peaks of injuries in one season. One in September and one in January. At the moment, there is a big concern because we are also in a bad state of injuries. It is true that we have a special interest with anterior cruciate injuries in young people. All right. True, they are growing up.
It’s September and we know that there are two peaks of injuries in one season. One in September and one in January.
S. How are injuries in football today?
R. We have to do a lot more in injury prevention than in football. Now seventy percent more or less of injuries in football are non-contact with the opposite. That is, they are produced only by playing football. Obviously, this figure tells you that we can do a lot.
S. Can it be said that there are fewer injuries because the intensity has increased?
R. What we are seeing is that there are injuries like hamstrings, which are increasing, but the intensity of football is also increasing. The most common injury is preserved, which is in the work of muscles and as a result of speed and high speed. In practice, let’s say, we are reducing the number compared to the intensity of football. We can say that we managed to keep the injuries at the same level.
S. The fracture of the Crusaders, does it grow or not?
R. There were bright injuries like Rhodri or ter Stegen, but the little ones are worried. Age is very accelerated when it comes to competition, they do it in a complete change. Suddenly his body grows, muscles change, they become much stronger and there are some difficulties with coordination. Until the player grows up, he does not finish full maturity in the coordinating case. They are subjected to a very significant increase in the intensity of the game. They only played soccer and football because they turned professional and lack other neuromotor skills that you can have with other sports.
There are many injuries that occur in the first minutes of the match, when the anxiety is greater, when the tension is greater,
S. Can the emotional factor be influenced by the pressure exerted on them?
R. Especially tension and demand. In fact, there are many injuries that occur in the first few minutes of the match, when the anxiety is greater, when the tension is greater, when the player is trying to do more than he can than he is ready for.
S. Where can the injury prevention thing go?
R. Preventing injuries is not easy. Injuries have a multifactorial cause. There are players who are more susceptible than others to genetics, by type of fiber, by Constitution, by psychology. Players also develop individual adaptations to football. It causes a decompensation that needs to be corrected. Then we have a training process that should be good, it should provide adequate training and adequate rest. In addition, it is necessary to prepare the player for match actions of greater intensity, because when he is more exposed. You have to do a very good upload process and a good recovery process. Finally, there is the player’s exposure to competition. In my opinion, what is being talked about about reducing Games is something to think about, because the latest studies tell us that 72 hours is probably not enough for a full recovery. The player should be better prepared to be able to perform in matches, which are now becoming more aggressive.
Today’s players are like large or small multinationals. They are high-billed companies with a lot of interest , where the player the first thing to do is compete against peers
S. Before, in the preliminary seasons, football players did not stop running and now three days later they are already playing matches…
R. What is happening now in football has a precedent in American professional sports. And what happens in football today is that the players prepare individually, that is, the players do most of the training in private, and not with the club. Why why why? Because today’s players are like large or small multinationals. They are high-billed companies and have a lot of interest, where the player the first thing he does is compete against his teammates to play on Sunday. In order for the coach to avoid him at training and take him out on Sunday, he has to prepare and wants to do it in private because he is logically competing against a teammate who can play in his position. They prepare at home, in their gyms, in something they can see on social networks. In the past, the players walked hand in hand with the club, they had a pre-season. The club took care of training. The players are currently training on their own. In the club there is a short training, usually 45 minutes , 60 minutes, during which technical and technical factors are worked out.
The players are training , they are preparing. Most of his training is private
S. What should be changed?
R. For a novice player, playing every three days is more than enough training, but do not forget that there are also alternatives. Ah enter the training, let’s say, private. And what happens is that now the players are training, they are preparing themselves. Most of his training is private and this is a huge problem, because the clubs do not know what the player is doing and you have to trust him. In such circumstances, the challenge of preventing injuries is much more complicated. Many coaches choose to evaluate a player in training and leave the players to prepare. Doctors, physicists, recuperators and the technical body do not deal with such data. To prevent injuries, you have to work with players individually because there is a huge individual variation in injury risk factors. The coach cannot do this because he cannot distinguish the training for each player, because if not the dynamics of the group. Harmony in the Working Group is fundamental and should give everyone the same and what the euro should promote in a certain way is competitiveness among the players. It is very difficult for him to take care of injury prevention because they don’t enter the player’s private training, and the player doesn’t want them to enter because if he has a problem, they don’t want the coach to know because he is the one who will decide if he plays on Sunday.
S. It all depends on the player, right?
R. You have to trust that the players will prepare and evaluate them. What many clubs are doing is creating a performance and health department or service, which provides the service to the player individually, confidentially and in coordination with the personal teams of each player, so that the club can help the player take care of himself and do injury projects. In my experience at Real Madrid we were already with her.
Improve this adaptation of football players and that the player and that football do not turn out to be so harmful in quotes to players. Not only to limit matches, but to improve the individual preparation of the player. Cargo handling is not ideal.
S. Coaches are becoming more and more ‘on the sidelines’ of what physical preparation is.
R. We have the example of Carlo Ancelotti,who is greatly admired by M. His policy is that. It doesn’t come into this. He manages the individual talents of the players. It’s a very smart thing to do. He is a highly capable innovator, able to see which player is right or wrong in a training session. It’s one of the secrets of Real Madrid’s success in my opinion. We have to adapt to what is the biology of the player, but there is also a lot to do in the individual preparation of the player, to improve it to improve the adaptation of players to football and that of the player and that of football does not turn out to be so harmful in quotes for players. Not only to limit matches, but to improve the individual preparation of the player. Cargo handling is not ideal.
