Keeping a Pro Rugby Player on the field without an ACL, with Dr. Ryan Summers- Active Life Radio #8
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What do you do if you are a professional athlete and you have a potentially career ending injury to your knee that you do not want to get surgery for? You work with Active Life of course.
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In today's episode Dr. Ryan and I discuss one of Ryan's clients, Max, who is a professional Rugby 7 player living in Hong Kong. Max tore his ACL for the second time and has elected to try and give his career a go without repairing the ACL.
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You might be asking yourself, "how is a guy going to play professional rugby without an ACL when tearing an ACL keeps guys in Professional sports out for almost an entire year?", and we are going to answer that question in this episode.
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We talk about the mental side of this injury as well as the nature of the recovery from it and how it needs to look to make sure that Max is able to perform and perform well.
Minute Breakdown:
0-10 - He tore his ACL for the second time
11-20 - He's a professional athlete, why doesn't his team medical and strength staff handle this?
21-30 - How to mimic sports movements with exercises in the gym
31-40 - Balancing the instruction from his on site S&C staff, and his Active Life coach
41-50 - Will he really be able to play?
Work with an Active Life Coach like Ryan at activeliferx.com/shrugged
Find Ryan at @dr.ryan.summers
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| 0:00.0 | Oh |
| 0:07.6 | All right, Dr. Ryan Summers welcome to active life radio on the shrunk collective network my man |
| 0:13.9 | Well something ain't gotta be here. I'm happy to have you my favorite person in Cleveland |
| 0:19.9 | I mean we can't tell Matt Stevens that cuz I just don't spend as much time with him |
| 0:23.9 | But I mean he's gotta be one B, right? |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah, definitely |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah, he has no interest in listening to this but |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah, I don't think it's pretty much not gonna politician at this point. Yeah, no, he's been he's been usurped so |
| 0:41.1 | Dr. Ryan I'm gonna call you Ryan going forward just cuz it's easier. It saves me a syllable or two syllables |
| 0:47.4 | You own pure physio in Cleveland with Matt, right? |
| 0:51.4 | You you guys helped what five or six games athletes this year at the CrossFit Games some some headline athletes |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, and that was out there helping out. I think we had five to six overall he was helping treat him get into the games unscathed |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, so people who are listening to this we recorded this podcast on the |
| 1:08.6 | Monday after the CrossFit Games ended so that'll give you some context for when we're talking about this stuff |
| 1:13.7 | But we're not gonna talk about a CrossFit or today |
| 1:16.0 | What I want to talk about is your client Max who was a professional is a professional rugby player and |
| 1:26.0 | knee pain |
| 1:28.9 | He's always interested because he's not a CrossFit or he really to have a lot of pain |
| 1:32.7 | He had had a lot of previous injuries in particular |
| 1:35.6 | He had torn his ACL twice on the same knee so he had worked with us in the past and found a lot of value |
| 1:42.4 | And what we had to do and in terms of programming with him and reached back out because |
| 1:47.1 | He had retorned the ACL and decided to not have surgery on it to treat it conservatively and |
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