Bad Backs for umpires
An increasing incidence and awareness of spinal-related injuries in umpires has promoted the Australian Football League Umpires Associations (AFLUA) to form an initial 2-year partnership with badbacks.com.au, Australia’s leading online destination for back pain relief resources and products.
Bad Backs for Umpires
An increasing incidence and awareness of spinal-related injuries in umpires has promoted the Australian Football League Umpires Associations (AFLUA) to form an initial 2-year partnership with badbacks.com.au, Australia’s leading online destination for back pain relief resources and products.
“While we do not have hard numbers or research to fall back on, anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that Australian Rules umpires suffer spine and joint pain significantly, as a direct result of their activity”, says ex-AFL umpire and CEO of AFLUA, Bill Deller.
The partnership will enable AFLUA members to receive remedial spinal and joint pain products at special pricing from Bad Backs’ 500+ catalogue, as well as access to their online resources, which includes a discussion forum, multi-disciplinary medical information and research on spinal pain management; something that is of considerable value to umpires, according to Deller.
“We see this new partnership with Bad Backs as a way of supporting our members with their spinal pain problems. While the AFL provides expert medical and physiotherapy assistance, I think that we can do more to help prevent back problems, and with the therapeutic products offered by Bad Backs, as well as their wealth of spinal care information, I think we can achieve better focus on prevention”, explains Deller.
“I have been in this industry for many years and have seen back and joint-related injuries in both current and retired umpires. Some of they guys have 20-30 year careers, so you can imagine they have clocked-up some running miles and spinal stress”, says Deller.
TYPICAL UMPIRE-RELATED INJURIES
Boundary umpires – throwing over head can cause compression of the spine
Field umpires – injuries related to running and whip lash from bouncing of football
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