Exclusive: Injury research suggests training not keeping up with demands of elite women’s game
Coaching methods are failing to keep up with the rapidly increasing demands of women’s professional football, resulting in more hamstring injuries among top female players. Experts are calling for women to be trained at a higher level to prevent such injuries.
Ekstrand and colleagues at Isokinetic Medical Group in London and the Football Research Group at Linköping examined exposure and injury data for the 2020-21 season from 11 leading European women’s teams – including Chelsea, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Olympique Lyonnais and Barcelona. They also asked their chief medical officers which of 21 modifiable risk factors they believed contributed to these injuries and to what degree.
“Women are playing more games than they ever have done, but if you increase the workload demand, that is definitely a risk factor for injuries,” said Dr Matthew Stride, a consultant in sport and exercise medicine at Isokinetic London and former club doctor to Brentford and the England women’s under-21 and under-16 teams; Stride was not involved in the study.
“Hamstring injuries mostly occur during sprinting and other high-velocity actions. Therefore, regular and consistent exposure to high-speed football actions prepares the hamstrings for similar moves occurring during games. Lack of sufficient high-speed play during training increases the risk for hamstring injury during the competition. Training should mimic match play to adapt the muscles to the game demand; also this factor is mainly controlled by coaches.
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