I looked at the MLS injured list and it has five guys with torn ACLs. It seems to me that we have a lot of blown ACLs in MLS. I have no data on this, but i watch the EPL and Bundesliga a lot and dont notice there being as many season ending injuries as there are in MLS. In previous threads we have discussed the turf around the league and how it impacts players. Am I wrong about there being a disproportionate amount of blown ACLs, etc.? Or is it true, and if so, is it because of the playing surfaces? The Russian field the US played on a while back was worse than the Jackson County P&R fields we play on (which have standing pools of water for a week after a hard rain). Would you then expect the Russian league to produce a similar amount of injuries? These are just some thoughts, that mainly have to do with the Wizards in that we have lost Burciaga to the same thing two years in a row, and Josh Wolff seems really susceptible to injuries too...
We have some bad knees on our team. Meola, Klein, Wolff, Guti, Burciaga, Farbro, is Quill on that list too? he has injured everything by now. I don’t know the stats but I think your right on the amount of knee injuries being more in the MLS. I don’t have any answers as to why if it’s true. I don’t think it’s the pitch though.
Certainly the individual should be looked at. Wolff seems to fit the bill of "injury prone". When injuries become proominent in other sports the theorists offer things like suppliments, 'roids, andro', weight (too much muscle OR fat), and the ever popular turf. I'm guessing, but I would think turf can be traced to be a factor as more injuries by percentage have happned on turf.
You are injury prone if your limbs are not perfectly symmetrical or certain part of your muscle are chronically tight which cause other muscle to overwork or do wierd things to compensate. When a player is injury prone, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
I don’t want to completely disagree with you as you have a valid point but I just want to say that some players fin ways to effectively play through injuries, granted you can’t always do that.
Good point. There's a negative connotation to "injury prone," as if it's the player's fault. We have to get beyond that.