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EP 96 Sports Science
#96 - The Future for AFLW, ACL Injuries and the effect of professionalism on Junior Athletes
ACL injuries are not a new problem in Australian sport, but the rate has become hard to ignore. Durham and Jacob lay out why the numbers are where they are, what the rise of AFLW and growing professionalism in junior sport means for the next few years, and what athletes and their families can actually do about it now.
Show notes
- The original article out of The Age (22 April 2018)
- The importance of getting your sporting load management right
- The history of AFL (as a hybrid game invented for Cricketers)
- You can find our warm up 2.0 guide on the home page of our website. This warm-up will work brilliantly as an AFL ACL prevention program in the absence of an official program.