Experts hypothesized that the knee injury that could eliminate Mary Fowler from football for a year could have been avoided if she and her Matildas teammates had reduced their workloads – with a person who also raised the role that another injury could have played in horrible development.
Fowler broke her anterior cross ligament (ACL) when she torn her right knee while playing for Manchester City in FA Cup last Sunday and is now in a race against time to play in the Asian Cup at home next year.
The acting director of City, Nick Cushing, had admitted that “did not seem very imminently”, but said that City was not afraid of the worst “.
But the scans have confirmed the dreaded injury, which means that Fowler will have to undergo a complete reconstruction of the knee.
His Matildas teammate, Sam Kerr, also broke his ACL last January and has still not been authorized to return to the field.
The physiotherapist now respected Brian Seeney, who discusses various sports injuries on his Instagram and X NRL Physio accounts, weighed and raised questions about another disease than Fowler bore before his disastrous backhand.
Two sports medicine experts raised questions about the injured right-wing hamstrings that Fowler wore when she broke up a right knee ligament (Fowler is represented with the hamstrings attached to Sydney two weeks before breaking his ACL)
The Matildas star should be released for about a year after the horrible moment while Manchester City played Manchester United (photo)
“ Horrible to see a break from the LCA now confirmed for Mary Fowler-interesting to read that she had a major game and travel charge leading to the injury and by facing a right problem for the hamstrings, ” he wrote on X.
This was saved by photos of Fowler Training with the Matildas in Sydney before their first friend against South Korea on April 4, where it was seen with its right ischioshiovers.
The muscle was also attached when she blew her LCA.
Dr. Peter Larkins – who competed for Australia at the Olympic Games before becoming a specialized sports doctor – also expressed his concerns concerning the hamstrings.
“No surprise, Man City confirmed the devastating rupture of the right knee LCA for Mary Fowler-better the question-what role did her concern about the hamstrings play in the contribution? He played clearly with this – always a lesson to learn with hindsight ” wrote Larkins on X.
Fowler had a very complete calendar in the head of the fateful match against Manchester United, with the city playing on 9, 15, 19, 23, 27 and 30, then the Matildas on April 4 and 7, before undergoing the injury on April 13.
Veeney was not the only expert to draw attention to this huge workload when the injury was discussed.
Performance coach Paulo Muwonge, who worked with players from the Women’s Super League of England, bound the number of LCA injuries in the female match with the quantity of football that the stars must play.
“70% of LCA injuries in the female game can be avoided by an appropriate load,” he wrote on Instagram.
Fowler (photo with his boyfriend Nathan Cleary) and his Matildas teammates suffered a very heavy workload and travel calendar before the injury
“According to experience, I can say that women are not in good hands regarding S&C training (strength and conditioning) and load management.
“It is a question of loading the loading as minimal as possible because we do not want to” tire “, but it actually causes more harm.
“They must train properly to become more resilient.”
When the FIFA World Director of World Director published its international game calendar last year, Matildas star Ellie Carpenter spoke for many of her teammates when she warned the overloading powers of stars.
“It becomes more difficult every year,” she said.
“We have expressed these problems in FifPro (the International Federation of Professional Footballers), but we all come back to seasons: many girls played in four competitions this season, a match every three days.
“We are all quite tired … We are professionals now, but the calendar is blocked. It’s not ok.
Sunday, the teammates of the city of Fowler made a comforting gesture of support for her during their draw 1 with Everton, with the striker Kerstin Casparij celebrating his shot by holding a city shirt with the name of the Australian on the back.
Fowler’s teammate, Laura Coombs, published an image of Casparij holding the shirt of the Matildas star, writing: “Trissons, we could not obtain the victory but we love you Mazzy (Fowler).”
The Australian striker reflected the post on his Instagram history, writing: “I also love it”.
