Data could help solve ACL crisis in women's game, says software firm

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - UEFA Women's Nations League - Semi Final - Spain v Netherlands - Estadio de La Cartuja, Seville, Spain - February 23, 2024 Netherlands' Vivianne Miedema in action with Spain's Laia Aleixandri REUTERS/Marcelo Del Pozo/File Photo

Smith's firm is partnering with a number of teams and leagues, among them reigning National Women's Soccer League champions NY/NJ Gotham FC, in an effort to find solutions to help players avoid such injuries. Working as a senior injury rehabilitation and conditioning coach with Leinster Rugby in his native Ireland, Smith noticed that the medical, strength and conditioning and performance departments all operated independently, generating vast amounts of data about players, but not sharing it effectively with one another.

Smith says that the wider hips of female athletes create a different"Q angle" – the angle of the femur bone in the thigh in relation to the knee – and this is a key factor in the preponderance of knee injuries in women's soccer. "It's an area that's been ignored previously, because people don't want to talk about the menstrual cycle, but the reality is for women, they have to deal with it, and I think we see it as such a huge opportunity to improve the standard of healthcare that is provided to female athletes," he says.

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