Roses, a top ACL surgeon and surprise back 5s
Full Time Europe: A show about women's football
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How to Reduce the Risk of ACL Injuries
The simple things are avoiding overload and fatigue. If you play when your muscles fired up and ready to go, you're much less likely to get injured. I think there's decent evidence that prevention programs do work. The male players are often viewed as very major financial assets. And so guess what? They get protected. Whereas the girls are often an oversight or just a second best. It's really unfair and arguably they need more of it than the male counterparts.
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