We’ve all heard it—the Chargers are snakebitten. They have the ‘injury bug.’ By and large, a majority of the fanbase and media actually believe this. No, not as concrete truth, but as just one of those things. While the majority of these injuries that often cripple key players each season appear freak and unprecedented, the statistical anomaly of it happening inordinately to the Chargers points at a potential failure on the team’s views of sports science/sports medicine.
That said, the science of Sports Science is still very new, and, in many ways, we’re still plodding through the dark, trying some off-the-wall remedies to see what sticks.