Bangladesh appoint London Rugby team physio as the new physiotherapist for national team

[Miraz]

Good news indeed!!

Hopefully he will be a capable physiotherapist who will be able to improve the fitness of our boys.

Media Release

New National Team Physiotherapist arrives tomorrow

The new National Team Physiotherapist Michael Laurence Henry will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Sunday, 14 December 2008) morning.

The 26-year-old Australian is a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the University of Queensland and until recently had been Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at Pure Sports Medicine Clinics in London, UK.

In his professional career he had been Head Physiotherapist of London Skolars Rugby League Club, a London based professional rugby league team and had worked as Team Physiotherapist for London Harlequin Rugby League Junior Academy Side and Physiotherapist of Allsports Physiotherapy & Sports Medicine Clinics in Brisbane, Australia where he was also the physiotherapist for the first grade team of a local Australian Rules football club.

Henry joins the BCB on a two-year (renewable) contract and will officially begin his Bangladesh assignment from Monday, 15 December 2008.

[bangla-red]

Maybe it'll improve our fielding. You never know.

[bdchamp20]

Good to know. Hope he is as good as Daryl Lifson, the best in the business.

[gunda]

Very good news indeed!!

[sandpiper]

Our problem is not in physics, its in metaphysics.

[bujhee kom]

Allhamdulillah!
daroon bhalo khobor to eta!
london theke aschen uni - tahole sylheti hobe mone hoi bhodroloke..!

[mshakir56]

He needs to change our players eating habit and tell players like Sakib and Junaid to gain some more weight and muscles, that way they can do power hitting with minimal casualties !

[Akib]

Hopefully he improves their strength and conditioning.

[Zeeshan]

lungi poira rugby....haire khoda

[auntu]

Welcome the newbie to Bangladesh.

[Razi]

Really glad to see a professional like him given the job, I hope he will improve the players fitness as some tough schedules are ahead of us.

[karimjay.]

now figure out how the london rugby club went, and how they go now without him.

[Rabz]

Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist ??
God! what is that?

Anyways, i'm not too sure about his appointment.
He certainly does not have a shiny resume to boast about. Plus his inexperience with a top(!) international team concerns me. He'd soon become a "Ulo bone sheyal raja" in our team and might want to use his theory rather than the proven ones.

Tutoring a junior academy team is not the same as tutoring a national team with few highly fragile players who are always on the spotlight. This spotlight issue might get the better of him and im afraid his decisions could adversly affect our players.

Well, he is an Aussie, so i'll give him a benefit of doubt .

Welcome aboard mate.

[BANFAN]

Hope he will be good for our young boys. Almost similar age will allow the players to have a better communication as well.

[cricman]

He must not know how much booze he's gonna get from them, just so he can say there fit

[nahaz]

If he's 26, it means he's only been physio for 5 years maximum..I wouldn't rate experience of some junior rugby club very highly , or being physio of a local queenslans footy team. But as long as he knows what he's doing, hopefully he can keep our players , esp fast bowlers like mash, fit. Overall fitness depends on the individual players more than the physio. Physio can only educate them.

[Niceman70]

Originally Posted by Rabz
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist ??
God! what is that?

Anyways, i'm not too sure about his appointment.
He certainly does not have a shiny resume to boast about. Plus his inexperience with a top(!) international team concerns me. He'd soon become a "Ulo bone sheyal raja" in our team and might want to use his theory rather than the proven ones.

Tutoring a junior academy team is not the same as tutoring a national team with few highly fragile players who are always on the spotlight. This spotlight issue might get the better of him and im afraid his decisions could adversly affect our players.

Well, he is an Aussie, so i'll give him a benefit of doubt .

Welcome aboard mate.

maybe he is hired because he worked with youths and now he will be working with bunch of more youths (bd team)

[bujhee kom]

welkome to bd michael laurence henry bro!
all the best and good luck to our new physiotherapist and the tigers!
and good luck to daryl lifson in his future journey!

[Orpheus]

Originally Posted by bujhee kom
Allhamdulillah!
daroon bhalo khobor to eta!
london theke aschen uni - tahole sylheti hobe mone hoi bhodroloke..!

heh!

I think we may set some record for the youngest TEAM (players + staff) ever. I can't think of any old guy involved with our team even if I tried.

[MohammedC]

Welcome to Bangladesh Mr Hendry



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[Razi]

New Bangladesh physio hospitalised with head injury

Dhaka, Dec 21 (bdnews24.com) – Michael Laurence Henry, the new physiotherapist of Bangladesh, suffered a serious head injury during the Tigers' practice session on Sunday at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.

The Australian physio, who replaced South African Darryn Lifson from London-based rugby team Skolars Rugby League Club on Dec. 15, was hit on the forehead by a direct throw from wicketkeeper Mushfiqur Rahim during fielding practice.

He was taken to Apollo Hospital, given 13 stitches and had a CT scan. He was under observation at the hospital.

"He is now out of danger as the CT scan revealed no internal bleeding. However, since it is a head injury, doctors decided to keep him under observation for 24 hours," said Shafiqul Haque Heera, the manager of the national team.

Heera added Henry was unmindful of the throw as he was looking at another ball when the throw hit him.

After practising in the indoor complex for the first two days, the cricketers had a nets session for the first time on Sunday afternoon.

The pitches looked fine despite being covered for a few days in the wake of a dense fog.

[tonoy]

You gotta be kidding me... >_>

I hope he is okay and recovers in time.

[Rabz]

Originally Posted by Razi
New Bangladesh physio hospitalised with head injury

What do you call that?
Paradox?
Comedy of errors?
Irony?

Reminds me, once my car broke down and i had to call those towing trucks.
Sitting next to the drivers while my car being towed, i asked him, "mate, who tows your truck if it break downs ?"

[Zeeshan]

Nah i dont find it funny. A man got hit in the head....

[bujhee kom]

bad news indeed. may Allah heal our physio bro mlh soon and well!