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MEDICAL treatment - designed for osteo-arthritis - on Nick Riewoldt's troublesome knee is helping the St Kilda captain find his best form in years.
Riewoldt said his consistency was in no small part due to orthokine therapy, a process that obtains anti-inflammatory proteins from the patient's own blood and injects them into an arthritic joint.
"I'm sure there are a few players in the competition that are doing it. It's given me a bit of a lift in the second half of the year. Certainly there are some up and down weeks and six day breaks play a bit more of a part but I feel good," Riewoldt said on Wednesday.
Orthokine involves taking blood from a patient's body, spinning it in a centrifuge to make a serum and then injecting it into a patient's knee.
The process has been used in the USA by basketballers Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum as well as baseballer Alex Rodriguez.
Riewoldt said the benefits were clear as he had been able to take part in more training than in previous years, which in turn had boosted his confidence and form.
I know this technique has been mentioned by others but I hope to God that they are looking into this for Adam Cooney. I know that it may well be of no benefit for him but surely it would at least be worth a try? Hell, if he needs to go to Germany to get it done I'll even drive him to the airport!
MEDICAL treatment - designed for osteo-arthritis - on Nick Riewoldt's troublesome knee is helping the St Kilda captain find his best form in years.
Riewoldt said his consistency was in no small part due to orthokine therapy, a process that obtains anti-inflammatory proteins from the patient's own blood and injects them into an arthritic joint.
"I'm sure there are a few players in the competition that are doing it. It's given me a bit of a lift in the second half of the year. Certainly there are some up and down weeks and six day breaks play a bit more of a part but I feel good," Riewoldt said on Wednesday.
Orthokine involves taking blood from a patient's body, spinning it in a centrifuge to make a serum and then injecting it into a patient's knee.
The process has been used in the USA by basketballers Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum as well as baseballer Alex Rodriguez.
Riewoldt said the benefits were clear as he had been able to take part in more training than in previous years, which in turn had boosted his confidence and form.
I know this technique has been mentioned by others but I hope to God that they are looking into this for Adam Cooney. I know that it may well be of no benefit for him but surely it would at least be worth a try? Hell, if he needs to go to Germany to get it done I'll even drive him to the airport!
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