Alex Oxlade Chamberlain aka "The Ox"

[calvoboy]

he was never the same player again. Sport science has come a long way since tho.

When I did my ACL I was lucky enough to have one of the top orthopaedic surgeons in the country doing my reconstruction (on the NHS) - he said then that around 25% of people who have an ACL reconstruction are never quite the same athletes afterwards. The theory at the time was that it was something to do with the way your brain interacted (or didn't) with the reconstructed joint. For some people the link was never quite the same, even when the repair appeared sound.

[labourRed]

When I did my ACL I was lucky enough to have one of the top orthopaedic surgeons in the country doing my reconstruction (on the NHS) - he said then that around 25% of people who have an ACL reconstruction are never quite the same athletes afterwards. The theory at the time was that it was something to do with the way your brain interacted (or didn't) with the reconstructed joint. For some people the link was never quite the same, even when the repair appeared sound.

Yup. It's the same with most joints. My footballing days ****ed my ankles up. It wss only when i had finished i saw a decent physio who gave me balance exercises to train my ankles (and link to the brain) to know when they were being streched as over time repeatedly straining them had weakened that link.

In the warm up routines you'll see pro footballers doing a lot of balance work. Same thing.

[danperkins]

Ruined myself back in the day playing football and going gym, doing the wrong things that were deemed correct back then, seeing ****ty physio's etc. These days though physio's have so much more knowledge, another 20 or 30 years we might be able to buy new limbs in stores... **** knows.

It's great that Ox is on the road back, the difference between jogging around and few static objects and laying the ball off to actually functioning in the high intensity of the premier league... when we are going for the title is not even worth talking about.

It's great he's on the road to recovery, delighted for him and would be fantastic for him to get some minutes in March or April which IMO is possible but early days for him. What's great though is that I bet he's buzzing being back training with the boys, he'll be itching to play some minutes but will be managed by the medical staff and rightly so. His pace and power are his game, if he loses that he's in trouble but hopefully it's not like Michael Essien who looked a world beater until his injury, he came back and then did his cruciate again a few years later. It really is a horrible injury.

I understand if he was eager to get involved and we are eager to see him but he's only 25 and could have another good 10 years in him, has to be careful after a notorious injury like that. Cruciate is no longer a career ending injury but whether or not he'll be the same player and have that same explosive power that we miss so much, remains to be seen.

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://youtu.be/iz5RxTq90z0[/ame]

[Shaggy]

Brewster seems a lovely kid. Be great if he makes it with us.

[baitman]

Had a tear in my eye at the end there

Brewster: eyebrows.

Ox: pisses hs pants

[BigChief]

Brewster seems a lovely kid. Be great if he makes it with us.

Really surprised by that. Looks a real sensitive and down to earth type. Come on Rhian, be our next Suarez.

[SB]

Great vid that.

[Norbs]

The Ox is God

[SB]

The Ox is God

He’s an awesome lovable type of guy isn’t he. He & Wenger must have been a strange relationship don’t you think.

[Pablo]

Ox is looking in great shape already too. Long gone are the days of players coming back from injury overweight.

[Norbs]

Brewster looked a little doughy though, or otherwise he has the face of a fatter man

[labourRed]

Brewster looked a little doughy though, or otherwise he has the face of a fatter man

Puppy fat.

[Phoenix07]

Brewster looks like a cross between John Boyega and Marcus Rashford

[Buzzo]

Johncus Boyford?