Sharks enforcer Toby Rudolf has turned to a left-field medical specialist in an try and rehabilitate a hard toe harm that plagued his 2023 marketing campaign.
Rudolf suffered a sprain between the massive toe and foot, an harm generally referred to as ‘turf toe’, which saved him sidelined for 3 months and wanted surgical procedure.
He returned to the sphere in July however continued to battle ache, particularly throughout working when the toe bends while pushing off to dash.
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Rudolf has reportedly been restricted to only strolling throughout pre-season and has been working with the pinnacle physiotherapist of the Australian Ballet in a bid to appropriate his harm.
“I’ve got turf toe but it’s the extreme end of it and my joint (at the base of my big toe) is just staying angry,” Rudolf stated to the ABC.
“I’ve been sent to see the head physiotherapist at the Australian Ballet … I’m not expecting magic hands but hopefully she can let us know where we’re going with our program and hopefully she says we’re on the right track.
“A couple of sessions where it’s 40 degrees Celsius, I don’t mind being on the sideline shouting, ‘Go on boys, you’ve got this’.
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“But in all seriousness, that’s where you build your connection and trust as a team, going through the hurt locker is how you get closer, although it sounds weird I love going through that hardship.”
The Australian Ballet’s medical group are accustomed to toe accidents because of the strain on the toes of the nation’s finest ballerinas.
Rudolf additionally revealed he’d given up consuming in a bid to be match and firing come the season’s begin, just lately placing pen to paper on a two-year extension with the Sharks.
“I think I speak for most of the team when I say we need to go on a drinking ban,” he stated.
“I’m going all in this year, no drinking. I told Fitzy on Mad Monday when I was full of liquid courage, but I stand by that and I told him that because I want to be held accountable.”
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