Food for thought? all these injuries and the reduction in contact drills?

[Anyong Bluth]

Originally Posted by jrowe

More athletes pushing their bodies to the limit and past with year round training and PEDs. You're going to get more injuries as athletes get bigger, faster and stronger. That doesn't necessarily translate to stronger connective tissue, bones, ligaments etc - the usual locations and mechanisms of injury.

I've heard this before and this I buy. Dudes are getting huge and putting some real demand on their tendons and ligaments- which can be the breaking point for sure.

I tore a thumb ligament skiing back in the day, and it didn't take much but the surgery and rehab hurt like a bitch and took forever. Creepiest and completely uncomfortable feeling to feel a wire looped through 2 holes they drilled completely through my thumbbone as they pulled one end back through to remove it.