Experts have speculated that the knee injury that Mary Fowler could have beaten out of football for a year could have been avoided if she and her Matildas teammates would have reduced their workload – with one that also brought up the role that another injury could have played in the terrible development.
Fowler tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) when she let her right knee wriggle while playing for Manchester City in the FA Cup last Sunday and is now in a race by the time to play in next year's Home Asian Cup.
City -Interim manager Nick Cushing had admitted that it “doesn't look so great,” but said that the city “didn't fear the worst”.
But scans confirmed the dreaded injury, which means that Fowler must undergo a complete knee -weder structure.
Her Matildas teammate Sam Kerr also tore her ACL last January and is still not liberated to return to the field.
Now respected physiotherapist Brian Seeney, who discusses various sports wounds on his NRL Physio Instagram and X accounts, has weighed and asked questions about another ailment that Fowler bore for her disastrous setback.
“Tight to see that an ACL fracture is now being confirmed for Mary Fowler – interesting to read that she had an important play and travel tax prior to the injury and to deal with a correct hamstring problem,” he wrote on X.
This was supported by photos of Fowler training with the Matildas in Sydney prior to their first friendly against South Korea on April 4, where she was seen with her judge Hamstring.
The muscle was also tied when she blew her ACL.
Dr. Peter Larkins – who participated in Australia at the Olympic Games before he became a specialized sports doctor – also expressed his concern about hamstring.
'No surprise Man City has confirmed the devastating rupture of the right knee for Mary Fowler – best the question – What role does her right Hamstring problems have contributed to contributions? I clearly played with this – always a lesson to learn afterwards, “wrote Larkins on X.
Fowler had a very complete schedule in the run -up to the fatal match against Manchester United, with city that played on 9, 15, 19, 19, 23, 27 and 30, then the Matildas on 4 and 7 April before she sustained the injury on 13 April.
Seeney was not the only expert who drawn attention to that enormous workload when discussing the injury.
Performance -Coach Paulo Muwonge, who has worked with players from the Super League of England, connected the number of ACL injuries in the women's match with the amount of football that the stars have to play.
“70% of ACL injuries in the women's game can be avoided by suitable charge,” he wrote on Instagram.
'From experience I can see that the women are not in good hands when it comes to S&C [strength and conditioning] Training and load management.
'It's all about loading as minimal as possible because we do not want to' tire 'players, but it actually causes more harm.
“They have to train well to become more resilient.”
When FIFA's world board released their international competition calendar last year, Matildas -star Ellie Carpenter spoke for many of her teammates when she warned the forces about overloaded stars.
“It gets harder every year,” she said.
'We have spoken these problems against FIFPRO [the International Federation of Professional Footballers] Recently, but we all come back from seasons: many of the girls played this season in four games, a game every three days.
'We are all just pretty tired … We are now professionals in this, but the schedule is stuck. It's not okay. '
On Sunday, Fowler's city teammates made a heart-warming gesture for her during their 1-all tie with Everton, where goal scorer Kerstin Casparij celebrated her shot by holding a city shirt with the name of the Aussie on the back.
Fowler's teammate Laura Coombs published an image of Casvarij who held up the shirt of the Matildas star and wrote: 'Sad we could not win the victory, but we love your Mazzy [Fowler]. '
The Australian attacker has restored the message on her Instagram story and wrote: “Love You's Too.”