The Telegraph Women's Sport Podcast: ACL Injuries

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Telegraph Rugby podcast will be back on Monday 4th September ahead of the Rugby World Cup. Until then, enjoy another episode of our latest sport podcast.

This episode of the Telegraph Women's Sport podcast, we look at one of the hottest topics in women’s sport right now: ACL - three letters that can strike fear into sportspeople. An anterior cruciate ligament injury means a lengthy spell on the sidelines and women are more likely to suffer them than men. But why? How can the risk be reduced? And what is it like to go through rehab for such a serious knee injury?

Sam is joined by three people who know more about this tricky injury than most.

Fiona Pocock won more than 30 caps for England and played in the 2010 Rugby World Cup, but she also spent long periods on the sidelines with injury. She now runs her own personal training company, specialising in female-specific programmes.

Tess Braunerova is a Premiership rugby player & international for the Czech Republic - she did her ACL the season before last.

And Tom Jacobs is a chartered physiotherapist who has worked in both elite and grass-roots sport. He helped set up the Sporting Knee Injury Prevention Programme (SKIPP) after seeing an increase in ACL ruptures amongst teenagers playing sport.

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0:00.0	The Telegraph. Podcasts. Women's football, Eurofinal, England, versus Germany, Wembley, sold out stadium,
0:14.0	and then to go on and win it. It was just insane. A lot of the chatter afterwards was, I really hope it's not the ACL,
0:20.7	hope it's everything else.
0:22.3	I'd worked in the Olympic and Paralympic system for a number of years.
0:25.9	No one had ever said the word, period.
0:27.7	No one had talked about menstrual cycles.
0:29.9	I've totally subscribed to best person for the job, but often the best person for the job could well be female.
0:35.3	But society isn't ready for that yet.
0:37.3	All I'm saying is that everybody should know how to swim.
0:39.7	I can't fathom how you can try and say that that is troublemaking or anything like that.
0:45.1	Every time I hear somebody talk about investing in women's sport and talking about it as if it's
0:50.9	some sort of donation or like charity.
0:53.7	You're welcome.
0:54.6	It's just such a weird way to tell me that you're bad at business.
0:58.5	Welcome to the Telegraph Women's Sport Podcast.
1:02.0	I'm Sam Quack and in this episode we're going to be discussing
1:04.8	one of the hottest topics in women's sport, ACL, three letters that can strike fear into sports people. An anterior cruciate
1:13.7	ligament injury means a lengthy spell on the sidelines and women are more likely to suffer from
1:18.9	them than men, but why? Here to help me answer all of those questions are some stellar guests
1:24.2	indeed. Our first guest won more than 30 caps for England and played in the 2010 Rugby World
1:30.4	Cup, but she also spent long periods on the sidelines with injury.
1:34.5	She now runs her own personal training company, specialising in female-specific programs
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