Pag wrote:I just found my stride shortened, could never get past half pace. My kick shortened in length. Had no ability to sprint off the mark.Lightning McQueen wrote:Dogwatcher wrote:I had OP in the early-2000s. Just before it became a common diagnosis.
I could play on a Saturday but couldn't run again until about Thursday, if I was lucky.
Lots of assumptions were made about my general attitude to training but I just couldn't run.
On Sundays, I could barely walk.
Once it started being diagnosed, a lot of what I came through all of a sudden made sense.
I had it for a whole season in 99, I missed a few games here and there to try and be ok for the Grand Final. It was excruciating so I wore skins and at every break the trainer had a bag of ice that I'd shove down the front of my skins to try and get through the next quarter.
It helped me short term but it's hard to describe the pain, I remember playing one game where I started in the centre and I did not kick the ball once for the entire match, 26 handballs.
Unforunately, these traits have never returned 100%.
I hope it all goes well for you mate, I never got mine properly treated, I retired from the game pretty early as my hammy's went ping too often at practice on cold nights. It didn't help that the coach would talk for too long in between exercise's, the last one was the sealer, I couldn't sit down to crap for nearly a week.