Diesel credits his Premier League experience with shaping his focus on performance improvement. In that environment, the player represents an investment to the organization. "The emphasis therefore is on not just preventing injury but also improving that player so that when the club sells him, it's an asset," Diesel said. "We found by making them better athletes, they become less injured."
How did this revelation come about?
"We were spending less time with injured players because we had fewer injuries," Diesel explains. "Then we started looking after the fit players more, in the sense of keeping them fit, not waiting until they had an injury to treat."
He began to see if he could identify things in an athlete's movement that would indicate where future issues might pop up. "I thought by looking at movement patterns, maybe I can predict what an athlete might be exposed to for injury or what might be limiting his performance," Diesel said, "and then I found the two started working together."
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