Joe Marler Reveals The Secret Behind His Miraculous Recovery From A Fractured Leg

by Will Matthews · February 2, 2017

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Joe Marler has revealed the secret behind his miraculous recovery from a broken leg.

Two pints of full fat milk a day, the work of England physio Phil Pask and potentially the healing powers of East Sussex’s sea air. That’s how the England loosehead apparently recovered so quickly.

Marler starts for England on Saturday against France after it originally looked like he was going to miss their first two matches of the Six Nations.

His recovery has been nothing short of remarkable given he is back in the starting line-up less than three weeks after the original prognosis put his return at over a month.

“I rehabbed the crap out of it to be honest and drank lots of milk,” Marler said.

“And that’s it, my body has taken care of the rest.”

Eddie Jones put Marler’s recovery in part down the sea air near the prop’s house, but the Harlequins man believes milk played a role alongside the work of experienced senior physiotherapist Phil Pask.

“Your mum or whoever says milk is really good for you and you don’t really believe it until you really need it because you’ve got a broken leg, apparently, so I just drank loads of that,” Marler said.

“I’m not putting it all on that, I’m putting it on Pask as well but yeah, it’s helped, I think.

“[It was] Just two pints of milk a day, I think it’s something I’ll keep doing because it’s really tasty and I always thought green top was good for you because it’s reduced fat but they gave me licence to have blue top and the odd day I’d have that gold top stuff, the one with like 1,000 calories in one. Maybe I won’t carry on with that but blue top, it’s been really good for me.”