{"id":364201,"date":"2025-12-22T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364201\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:05:07","slug":"liam-belcher-wales-hooker-relieved-to-be-back-for-cardiff-after-scary-nerve-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364201\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Belcher: Wales hooker relieved to be back for Cardiff after &#8216;scary&#8217; nerve issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales hooker Liam Belcher is glad to be back to full power with Cardiff after a &#8220;scary&#8221; injury that saw him lose the feeling in his arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old front-row forward featured in the autumn Tests against Argentina and Japan until being sidelined by a nerve issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hooker returned to captain Cardiff against Scarlets in the United Rugby Championship (URC), providing some cheer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd0kp4x8kl9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a frustrating 21-17 loss.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a concerning one, I&#8217;d never had it before,&#8221; said Belcher. &#8220;It was a bit scary losing power in your arm, then it hit the tricep and went on to the forearm and grip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The only positive I can take against Scarlets was that I got through okay and there weren&#8217;t any repercussions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wales hooker Liam Belcher is glad to be back to full power with Cardiff after a &#8220;scary&#8221; injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-364201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}