Back in the day it was general massage therapists, good hands, good instincts. But those were the days of the sponge men. There were no GPS monitors strapped to chests, no MRI scans available within hours and no endless dashboards of data. And the athletes? They played hurt. That was the culture: get back out there and get on with it. Mark Bender discusses the pressures of being a professional athlete in the current era.
