NICK WORTH (MSK & Sports Physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working with elite athletes)

Hyaluronic acid (HA) has been trusted for decades to support joint comfort and mobility, with clinicians using it to help ease osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms and keep people moving (Huerta-Angeles and Mixcoha 2024). Within Football – both at Elite and Grassroots levels – it has been increasingly used to help reduce the pain and stiffness within a joint (mainly knees associated with OA) both whilst playing or after retirement from the game. In my experience, it has been used safely to support players who are experiencing the early stages of OA that comes from a career of playing and repeated degenerative changes or minor meniscal damage. This may be within a season but also managing the ongoing problems that players encounter when they stop playing and throughout their later life.

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