In today's Cowboys news update, the Dallas Cowboys and their training staff are doing everything they can this offseason to reduce the number of hamstring injuries on the team.
Per Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News, despite the fact that COO Stephen Jones said in April that the team wouldn't change its offseason program significantly in order to reduce risk of injury, "a few stretching adjustments and additional workout equipment were noticeable during the first week of organized team activities."
Last season, twelve Dallas Cowboys players suffered an injury to the thigh muscle.
Outside of the team's locker room at Valley Ranch, a half-dozen workout machines and a set of ballet bars are in place in hopes of helping that number decrease in 2014.
"We’ve put a big emphasis on addressing, as an organization, some of the injuries that we’ve had,” head coach Jason Garrett stated last week. “Just an emphasis on stretching, giving our players the opportunity, whether it’s with ballet bars or V-sits or back systems, whatever things we use, we try to help them get into routines that can help them be flexible and avoid some of the injuries we’ve had. It’s always been an emphasis for us. We have to look at ourselves and what we’re doing to help our players stay as healthy as possible.”
If the Dallas Cowboys' players utilize the new equipment to the best of their abilities, the Cowboys may be able to buck the injury trend which has plagued them the past couple seasons.
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