Lee’s Legs
By Aston
October 5 2006
Town striker Alan Lee is hoping to finally have a clear run with out injuries after discovering the cause for many of them was his legs.
Lee has been blighted by minor groin and stomach injuries over the years and it has now been discovered that it is because he has one leg an inch longer then the other, something that was only discovered recently by a podiatrist. Lee now wears special inserts in his boots to balance his leg lengths out and that has so far cured the problems.
Lee: “On and off the pitch I have never been more content.
“I had problems for so long with my groin and with my stomach that it just seemed I would never get an injury-clear run at it. It was a hugely frustrating time. But I had an operation during the summer and that seems to have taken care of it - part of it seemed to be down to the fact that they also discovered that I have one leg an inch longer than the other.
“Most people would have a leg about a centimetre longer but this is noticeably different.
“Now I'm running around in training like all the others, rather than being the guy who had to rest, take it easy.
“Touch wood, I feel great now, I have six or seven games under my belt with
Source: EADT
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