Blazer Hippie I enjoy reading your posts but I think you are being a bit critical here and quick to dismiss a treatment option that may very well benefit Roy's hammy. I am a podiatrist so I do have medical knowledge about varying treatment options (even if it doesn't necessarily pertain to my field of expertise. Deep tissue massage is a form of therapy that can break up old scar tissue (Remember Roy injured his hamstring last season I believe against Toronto) and increase blood flow to the injured area which DOES help promote healing. In my practice, I have a physical therapist who I refer patients to after significant ankle injuries. She works on breaking up the adhesions as well as the inflammation within the tendons and the tendon sheaths. She also does infrared therapy (again to increase blood flow to the area). With Roy injuring his hamstring last year and again this year in the same location it is obvious that he had some prior damage that never fully healed. While deep tissue massage technique might not be the only treatment he needs it certainly would not hurt in breaking up the old/new scar tissue in the area.
Agree entirely! I can think of 5 massage therapists that I hang out with regularly...it's weird once you befriend one of them...more and more keep showing up around you! I agree that it can definitely provide benefit...without a doubt. My main beef was the whole way it came up, and acting as if deep tissue massage is a miracle cure for hamstrings regardless of the severity of the injury. And, to act as if it's ignored by teams paying athletes millions of dollars...it just isn't logical. And in fact...Roy is doing massage: http://www.iamatrailblazersfan.com/.../188/EntryID/687/BroadcasterID/4/Default.aspx
That isn't exactly what it says... It says you can do those things and that none of them are guaranteed to work. The sloppiness of the wording leaves the last piece open to interpretation... He hasn't necessarily tried all of them. However, I would guess the team has tried at least cursory deep tissue work. But as I stated previously, there is a huge range of effectiveness depending on the competence of the therapist. In my experience, medical training and massage expertise are nearly mutually exclusive, so unless Roy has gone to someone outside the training staff, it probably hasn't been done well.
Well I hope he goes here: http://pamelamassage.com/ And I probably agree that it would be great for him to go to a specialized therapist for his massage...outside the training staff. I KNEW WE COULD FIND COMMON GROUND! And for the record I have used deep massage and Chiro for my back...
The Blazers need to look into this approach http://www.active.com/triathlon/Art..._muscle_tears_with_cross-friction_massage.htm
