{"id":14199,"date":"2011-07-13T11:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T11:15:41","slug":"stephen-ferris-making-injury-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/stephen-ferris-making-injury-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Ferris Making Injury Progress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Stephen Ferris has returned to pitch based running last week as he targets a return to playing action.<\/p>\n<p>He has been undertaking a progressive running programme that was conducted by Alan McCaldin on an Alter G treadmill. The anti-gravity running machine controls the pressure exerted on the body, allowing Stephen to load his knee with up to 100% of his bodyweight.<\/p>\n<p>National and Provisional Physio and Strength &#038; Conditioning units have agreed on a planned programme for Stephen which was devised by Ulster Strength &#038; Conditioning Coach Jonny Davis. The programme is based on a comprehensive analysis of GPS data to determine appropriate volume and intensity of sessions &#8211; Global Positioning Systems track player movements on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Ferris has not played since picking up a knee injury in Ulster\u2019s final Heineken Cup pool game against Aironi in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosportsdirect.com\/index.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9533\" title=\"Click Here For Eurosports Direct E-Commerce Website\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/eurosports.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"943\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Ferris has returned to pitch based running last week as he targets a return to playing action. He has been undertaking a progressive running programme that was conducted by Alan McCaldin on an Alter G treadmill. The anti-gravity running machine controls the pressure exerted on the body, allowing Stephen to load his knee with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6057,6059,6058,6060,6056],"class_list":["post-14199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-ferris","tag-injury","tag-making","tag-progress","tag-stephen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14201,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions\/14201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}