Massive surge in hamstring injuries as GAA teams push ‘over the edge’

One of the GAA’s most respected physiotherapists believes a “copycat phenomenon” is partly to blame for pushing inter-county training workloads “over the edge”. 

Tyrone minor football physio Marty Loughran made the claim after learning of a concerning spike in hamstring injuries of 8% in 2014 alone.

The figures are based on injury data supplied by inter-county teams to a research group in UCD since the mid-2000s. An injury is deemed to be anything that keeps a player out of a training session or game.