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This is a potential trajedy
If he was playing injured there needs to be a complete investigation
How can this be???
But
Who is going to do it?
I miss our superstar
Just hope he gets the best treatment
But hope that he can come back 100 per cent
Love you Joey. …
Would there be some kind of injections regime or amino acids we could give to help him out?
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Hang on, I’ll have a look in the fridge.
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Please enlighten us then, oh wise one.
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Clearly was a mistake to continue to play and exacerbate an existing injury. Maybe a mistake in hind sight. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Seasons wasted anyway, but could have been an important development year for the big fella.
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You are going to look inside begley?
#whateverittakes
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No doubt the club will continue with strengthening and rehabilitation for his groin so that he is right to go for next pre-season…
AND then book him in for surgery so that he misses all of 2019 as well.
Christ this club is amateur on so many levels.
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wickipaedia
Osteo pubis
Treatment and prevention
Until recently, there was no specific treatment for osteitis pubis. To treat the pain and inflammation caused by osteitis pubis, antiinflammatory medication, stretching, and strengthening of the stabilizing muscles are often prescribed. In Argentina, Topol et al. have studied the use of glucose and lidocaine injections (“prolotherapy”, or regenerative injection therapy) in an attempt to restart the healing process and generate new connective tissue in 72 athletes with chronic groin/abdominal pain who had failed a conservative treatment trial. The treatment consisted of monthly injections to ligament attachments on the pubis. Their pain had lasted an average of 11 months, ranging from 3–60 months. The average number of treatments received was 3, ranging from 1–6. Their pain improved by 82%. Six athletes did not improve, and the remaining 66 returned to unrestricted sport in an average of 3 months.[4]
Surgical intervention - such as wedge resection of the pubis symphysis - is sometimes attempted in severe cases,[5] but its success rate is not high, and the surgery itself may lead to later pelvic problems.
The Australian Football League has taken some steps to reduce the incidence of osteitis pubis, in particular recommending that clubs restrict the amount of bodybuilding which young players are required to carry out, and in general reducing the physical demands on players before their bodies mature.
Osteitis pubis, if not treated early and correctly, can more often than not end a sporting individual’s career, or give them an uncertain playing future.
Epidemiology
The incidence of osteitis pubis among Australian footballers has increased sharply over the past decade. There are believed to be three reasons for this:
The increasing physical demands of Australian rules football. As the game has become more professionalised, with players becoming full-time athletes, such factors as running speed, kicking length, jumping, and tackling have all increased, placing increasing stress on the pubic region.
The increasing hardness of the surfaces of football grounds. Grounds are better drained than in the past, and the game is increasingly played in roofed stadiums, in which the grounds receive no rain. Australian football evolved as a winter game played on soft, muddy grounds, and modern surfaces have made muscle and bone injuries more common.
The increasing demand for size and strength among footballers. This has led young players to concentrate on building muscle mass before their bodies are fully mature. The additional strain that highly developed abdominal muscles place on the pubic bone explains the higher prevalence of osteitis pubis in young players. Some develop the condition while still playing school-level football.
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The good news…
and the bad news…
Weirdly enough I think the bad Thymosin would potentially be of assistance here.
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Hopefully now with that excerpt from ‘wickipaedia’, the calls for surgery can subside.
But then, . our Doc’s and Physios and other staff sre all stupid though, … so how would they know one way or the other ??
Should someone send them the wiki link perhaps, … 
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Oh dear.
Didn’t know we had so many medical specialists supporting Essendon! Glad I haven’t visited this thread for a long time.
Hepp played out the 2017 season managing his groins. Barely trained, obviously wasn’t at his best, but would’ve been better than his replacement had they decided to rest him for an extended period that season.
Joe played the back end of 2017 with this same problem. They managed it, he continued to play and at a high level. We don’t play finals last year if we rested these 2 last year, don’t see anyone complaining about that decision.
There are dozens of players in the comp managing chronic groin issues, you just don’t hear about the blokes managing it successfully, all media attention is on the blokes who fail to manage it. This was a fail in hindsight, but these decisions are only ever made based on %s. They make decisions based on attempting to maximise outcomes, but as with all injuries, some invariably fail.
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Sure players still put up niggles and pain, and perform OK, but any observer to Joey would have seen that he was not at his best and was hampered in his athletic ability.
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Bruce Reid has been our Club Doctor for 36 years and should have been moved on when Sheeds left. Our club, our supporters and certainly the players need to have a world’s best practice medical and sport science team to keep our best team on the park. Reid is way past his use by date.
We should have looked overseas to Soccer or US sports for the best Sports Medicine professional (and his team) who was working at the cutting edge of player preparation, recovery and injury management. The club should have initiated this 12 -15 years ago. But no we take the conservative approach and keep Reidy, a GP who works with a sports medicine group.
How he escaped sanction for his role in the saga is probably only due to the fact that his profile wasn’t significant enough to warrant chasing by the AFL. Although the AMA do have clout.
The mismanagement of Scott Gumbleton in his early days at the club was nothing short of negligent. Now, it would seem, that our medical team has mismanaged our match-winner.
How can we ever hope to be a force again in the AFL if we are run by a completely AFL compliant and gutless administration and our players health supervised by a second rate medical team.
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What evidence do you have that Reid isn’t up to it? Surely you’re not basing this on treatments suggested in Wikipedia articles?
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wikipaedia actually…
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