Explaining Ousmane Dembele's right hamstring rupture, return, reinjury cycle, and career outlook

Dr. Rajpal Brar, DPT delved into Barcelona and French international winger Ousmane Dembele’s right hamstring “biceps femoris tendon rupture”, the surgery & return timeline, his 2.5 year injury-reinjury cycle at Barca, and what it all means for his career.
Here's a table of contents:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:42 The injury
- 1:52 Surgery and return timeline
- 2:30 Injury-Reinjury cycle
- 5:35 Career outlook
- 7:59 The Upshot

[@leoulgeg]

Man, Dembele breaks my heart

[@3cbperformance]

It really is heartbreaking to watch. Just hoping he can get through it

[@victormugishar.5812]

Thank you so much 😊 Man!!!!!! Dembele is a talented player who will overcome this and score magnificent goals

[@3cbperformance]

Yw. Def wishing him the best

[@jokerss4204]

We hope Dembele gets back to his best.

[@3cbperformance]

joker ss420 likewise

[@Aero10]

Thank u for making this bro , it’s beyond unfortunate but I appreciate u making these videos , keep up the great work

[@CharIie83]

a great player I think, luckily he is still young

[@3cbperformance]

He has age on his side but numerous other risk factors; wishing the best

[@william_SMMA]

Exactly Unlike hazard or griezmann who have to hit the ground running with no time for Injuries or loss of form

[@xim40]

How can you explain this so nice and easy!!!

[@jornwiekens7952]

Great video man! Good adressing of the topic and great way of simplifying the subject and make it easy for non-medically schooled people to understand and comprehend.

[@3cbperformance]

Jorn Wiekens thank you. One of my goals is trying to break it down into simpler terms

[@BENKIandCO]

Dude I was searching for this

[@3cbperformance]

harshith K glad you found it

[@nileshbirajdar6549]

All prayers to him.. Come stronger man.. Allha will give you new life

[@tshepomohoboko7450]

What about when he was at dortmund tho.. its definately the training staff

[@ionobi9329]

He seems to be doing well this season

[@3cbperformance]

He is - hopefully can stay healthy

[@julienjts]

Background music song name ?

[@SanRemoMotelBar]

Awesome. but you don't pronounce the E at the end of his name...

[@3cbperformance]

Really? Didn’t know that

[@mamadousow8290]

But i dont understand he was not getting injured in Dortmund and rennes and he had bad habits there too and just came to barça and injuries started.

[@3cbperformance]

It's a great question and may have to do with training methods or perhaps greater intensity of games/matches which are associated with higher injury risk. His injury is one that once you get one it can turn into a vicious cycle

[@mamadousow8290]

@@3cbperformance yes, even malcom said that the trainings in barça are nothing compered to zenit and if you have an athlete like ousmane you cannot do weak trainings and then expect him to sprint in the matches he must be prepared in my opinion

[@3cbperformance]

@@mamadousow8290 Very interesting; hadn't heard that before from Malcolm. There's certainly some truth that an athlete needs to be prepared for the demands of the match and undertraining can open them up to injury as well

[@q-blaze5961]

@@3cbperformanceMalcom “Players at Barcelona don’t train enough. That’s why I got injured so often at Zenit, I was used to that training! At Barça, they only train 40 or 50 minutes. Here [Zenit] we do double that amount. Valverde training sessions were not hard. They were almost just doing rondos, and they were not training for long like Malcom said. Dembele was used to hard intensity training in Dortmund. In Barceona he had low intensity training sessions, and he is playing style require intensity. His poor diet, not enough sleep and Valverdes training sessions may have been a big factor. From low intensity training to play those matches whit his sprint and stop style of play is not a good combo.

[@3cbperformance]

@@q-blaze5961 100% agreed. That type of increase in intensity is asking for injuries

[@JCMotivates_]

It’s Also Valverdes fault because he didn’t give any attention on preventing injuries but he’ll get through it 😁

[@3cbperformance]

Do you mean in-game or something else?

[@JCMotivates_]

3CB Performance Training

[@3cbperformance]

@@JCMotivates_ The training staff is responsible for training, not Valverde

[@JCMotivates_]

3CB Performance Ik but Valverde got asked if he is watching his player’s for injuries because also around that time I think Messi got injured can’t remember if it was him and Valverde said he wasn’t really putting attention to it but idk man maybe it is the Staff

[@3cbperformance]

@@JCMotivates_ In most settings, the training/medical staff are responsible for watching those aspects and communicating those to the coach. Now if Valverde was ignoring them, that's a different story. I'm not too familiar with that situation myself

[@1q3er5]

africa and australia .. fast twitch muscles ... wut an odd couple

[@3cbperformance]

Australia due to the aboriginal population

[@prospecial]

i had no idea you could injure your muscles so badly doing sports

[@3cbperformance]

Unfortunately yes you can

[@JohnBlessed5]

Dembele I think does not take good enough care of himself and he is too weak, he needs to do strength training, have a better diet and rest enough.

[@3cbperformance]

That was reportedly the case early in his career and his first year at Barca. As I mentioned in the video, his agent moved in with over the past summer to help rectify some of those issues

[@tijashbarreno]

This was more of a problem in his first season. He takes good care of himself now. The current issue is the re-injury cycle that happens when you return too soon. He also needs to evolve his playing style so that its not so reliant on pace abusing.

[@3cbperformance]

@@tijashbarreno I agree with this

[@callous2k486]

@@tijashbarreno I wouldn't say his playing style is reliant on "pace abusing". Sure, that does play a significant factor in it, but the main part of Dembélé's playing style is his incredibly good close dribbling. A player that is overly pace reliant would be someone like Adama Traore

[@neurophilosophers994]

Bad diet and sitting 10 hours a day playing fifa not getting proper sleep ...

[@3cbperformance]

Seems like those lifestyle factors were certainly a habit

[@neurophilosophers994]

3CB Performance the sitting tightens his muscles already susceptible from having lots of fast twitch fibers, the lack of sleep prevents the muscle from recovering, and the diet means he doesn’t even have the optimal nutrients for his body to recover the muscle even if he did sleep. Just terrible he had so much potential

[@callous2k486]

Apparently him not getting proper sleep, playing PS4 too much and other bad lifestyle choices is old news. I heard he's been avoiding all those since 2019

[@3cbperformance]

@@callous2k486 I mentioned this in the video but I'd heard the same thing, in particular his manager came down to stay with him to help eliminate some of those habits

[@callous2k486]

@@3cbperformance yeah that's what I've heard. So I still cringe whenever I see a comment that blames Dembélé's unprofessional lifestyle for his injuries