Thanks for your interesting post.Unfortunately you can't believe what you read in the press. I would suspect the injury may be something he has had for a long time and that he has had a lot of physio etc. on without lasting success.

Now that is not to say that the physio would not have worked in theory but in practice we are dealing with 'professional' sportsmen. That should really be renamed as 'Paid Sportsman' as the concept of looking after their assets, injury prevention, appropriate compliance with advice etc.is often non-existent. Of course I am not directing this at Mr Petersen but one can't know if in reality surgery was the only practical option at this time.

So my comment is that even when we feel we know what works, what we would like our clients to do we all to often find that what they are actually interested in doing is a totally different thing. God love professional sport!