Mary Fowler revealed the seriousness of her knee injury for the first time after she torn her front cruciate ligament (ACL) while playing for Manchester City in the FA Cup.
Fowler, 23, posed on Tuesday for an Instagram photo with Matildas teammate Courtney Nevin, with a large brace on her damaged knee.
The typical recovery time of an ACL fracture can be as short as nine months -but Matildas captain Sam Kerr sustained the same injury in January 2024 when in a training camp with Chelsea is in Morocco and still not returned to the field for a competitive match.
Fowler is now racing the clock to appear in the Asian cup of next year on home floor.
It comes as a respected physiotherapist Brien Seeney, who discusses various sporting injuries on his NRL Physio Instagram and X accounts, raised 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 right Knieacl – fracture for Mary Fowler – but the question must be asked – What role has her right Hamstring problems contributed to contributions?
“This clearly played with this – always a lesson to learn afterwards,” he wrote on X.
Fowler had a very busy schedule in the run-up to the fateful FA Cup collision against Manchester United, where the citizens play 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 game with the number of matches 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' tired 'players, but it actually causes more angry.
“They have to train well to become more resilient.”
On April 20, Fowler's city teammates made a heart-warming gesture for her during their 1-1 tie with Everton, in which Kerstin Casparij celebrated its goal 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.”