Locked up on women's basketball: PT WNBA injury Roundtable

Your conversation begins with the most dreaded acronym for women's sports, ACL. Keprevian and Seehofer share some research and reasoning for the commonality of the injury before showing that there have actually been more ankle injuries in the league since 2023.

“From the 2023 season until our recording here on May 21, there were 77 ankle injuries, and that is by far the most compared to 56 knee injuries,” said Seehehfer and referred to his tracker. “And then the third most common injury is only a general illness, so to speak. So side sprains of the ankles or outside the ankles are most common.”

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In the second segment, you switch to the prevention of injuries and the measurement teams take your athletes healthier.

“Something important for athletes and prevention overall is that everything is very individualized,” said Kevarkian. “So we want your individual risk factors and what you need for your body. Do you already have existing injuries that affect your warm -up? Do you have to have additional time?

“If, for example, someone had an Achilles rupture from which they are recovering, they have to spend a little more time before they warm up, they know and work on the mobility of the ankles. So I think something that we really only have to take into account when it comes to preventing it is that they deal for individual programs and this athletes are as a whole. And what we can do better, and their program, and their program, and their program, and their program. views. ” “

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