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Greg Dea
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Join date: Apr 19, 2019
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I am a Registered International Sports Physical Therapist with 25 years of experience serving individuals worldwide!
I am passionate about success and adventure. I have lived and worked as a sports physiotherapist in five countries, taught in ten, and traveled to over thirty, exploring the most challenging athletic environments to understand what consistently results in success, efficiency, and safety. Additionally, I have conducted seminars internationally on advanced palpation, clinical integration, and lymphatic and visceral manual therapy techniques.
I now dedicate myself to supporting weekend warriors, parents, and aspiring sports and adventure champions!
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Jul 13, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Why Your Losing Weeks Show What Your Squad Really Needs
The Diagnostic: The 7.3% Gap Every second-division club has losing weeks. The question isn't whether you lose—it's what your losing weeks reveal about your squad. A second-division club's 2024 season shows a clear pattern: availability in winning weeks was 85.8%. Availability in losing weeks was 78.5%. That 7.3 percentage point gap isn't noise. It's a diagnostic signal. What The Gap Actually Means Figure 1: The diagnostic gap. When the club won, 85.8% of the squad was available. When they...
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Jul 13, 2026 ∙ 5 min
One Fewer Match Per Player: How Availability Compounds Across a Squad
The Number That Matters Over four years, a second-division club achieved a single, deceptively simple outcome: each player missed one fewer game per season. That's it. Not a revolutionary intervention. Not a magic protocol. One game. But in team sport, one player represents consistency. And consistency—as the data would later reveal—is what moves the scoreboard. The Per-Player Metric Games missed per athlete: Year 1: 5.22 games per player per season Year 4: 3.93 games per player per season...
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Jul 13, 2026 ∙ 5 min
Why Availability Matters More Than Injury Count: What Four Years in a Second-Division Club Revealed
The Paradox A second-division VFL club implemented a screening-led player wellness system over four years. At the end, the data revealed something counterintuitive: the number of new injuries barely moved—but the club got significantly healthier. Fewer players missed games. Injuries cost less time. The available squad on match day was stronger and more consistent. And when the data was overlaid against winning and losing weeks, the correlation was impossible to ignore. The lesson isn't...
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