Performance / Injury prevention

The question I get asked most after a serious injury is when someone can play again. And it's badly framed: playing again isn't a moment, it's a process with stages, and each one has a different person responsible. What the evidence says about timelines, why criteria govern over the calendar, and where each person's role begins and ends.

En diez segundos de partido, la cadera de un futbolista hace flexión profunda bajo carga, rotación interna, rotación externa y extensión. Y cuando algo falla, el dolor casi nunca aparece ahí. Qué dice la evidencia sobre movilidad de cadera, por qué el trabajo activo cambia todo, y dos pruebas que podés hacer en casa en cinco minutos.

By Pablo Dip - Método PD Everything starts from the ground. And what connects you to the ground is your foot and ankle. In football we talk a lot about power, speed and explosive strength. And rightly so, because that's what wins matches. But few people look at the first link in the chain: the ankle-foot complex, the only point of contact between your body and the ground. Every sprint, every deceleration, every change of direction and every jump starts there. If that base fai