Brisbane star Daniel Rich is recuperating from knee surgery. Picture: Adam Head Source: Adam Head / News Corp Australia
HAMSTRING injuries remain the most common AFL injury, but it's knee reconstruction surgery failures that has the league searching for answers.
The 2013 AFL Injury Survey released today shows one in three knee reconstructions last year failed.
Of the eight failed surgeries, three were LARS ligament grafts.
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The report revealed an increase in the number and seriousness of injuries in the past five years.
While the number of hamstring and groin injuries has fallen since the introduction of the substitute rule, calf, knee tendon and foot/ankle complaints is on the rise.
"Hamstring strains are still the number one injury in the game in terms of both incidence and prevalence (missed games)," the report stated.
Carlton veteran Chris Judd shredded his hamstring just six minutes into his first game back from an Achilles problem. Picture: Michael Klein Source: News Corp Australia
AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said the survey provides the league with "real data" to consider as part of the debates of rule changes to make the game safer for players.
AFL Injury Survey co-author Dr Hugh Seward urged the league to take a more conservative approach with concussions.
"The years 2011-13 had an increase in incidence of concussion compared to the nine previous years of the injury survey," the report stated.
"Even though the incidence was still low ... on average 1 player per club missing games each year due to concussion."
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