Timothy wrote:
If you have an area of weakness quite often you have to over compensate in other ways, and that can lead to injury. Put it this way, people aren't just 'injury prone', there's always a root cause or causes.
Sure, but when you tear ligaments and muscles to the left and right it sounds like it has more to do with genetic predisposal. Wenger has touched upon this in the past:
“I can tell you he has been everywhere in the world to be assessed. There is an explanation. He is quick, strong, has good stamina, good resistance to repeat, but his muscle strength is not good enough to deal with that. Sometimes little fibres go in his muscles, this is basically his problem.
“When you play every three days, you cannot rebuild your strength as you need to recover. When you don’t rebuild your strength, through the games you burn your fibres a bit and become weaker and weaker, so that means he gets injured.
“The second reason for his problems of course is his ankle. Since he was slaughtered at Sunderland, his mobility in his ankle has been affected.”
I imagine that the damagd ankle introduces a whole new set of unknowns into the equation, but it can't be the whole explanation. If his leg really became shorter after the accident then surely some special-made shoes would cancel that out? It's a pretty common phenomenon among tennis players, who tend to use their pelvic rotation a lot.
