Mark interviews Max Bailey from Hawthorn FC. Max has had 3 ACL ruptures over the last 5 years, 2 on the right and 1 on the left. Mark has been working with Max over the last 3 years and in this interview they discuss;
- the adversity and learning from serious injury
- the importance of proactivity in rehabilitation
- the importance of responsibility, ownership and input from the athlete
- OK pain and Not OK pain
- the site of pain as messenger to check overall functioning
- perceptual processing and injury prevention
- length of muscles turning up as aliveness
- long term learning is not obvious intially
- Peak and Trough making up a weekly cycle
- the importance of functional squatting
- the importance of Deep System Stability and optimising spinal curves
- checking in functionally in daily living