Lowry O'Mahony

Hopefully the weather is better.

They're off school and then we're up to maybe 10 hours of training.

And so then you have your...

Severs are also known as apophyseal calcinitis.

Or we also have... The Osgood-Schlatter's, which you talked about, the pain in the front of the knee.

Is the treatment the same for that?

Is that stretching and watching how much you're doing, but not complete rest?

Absolutely now there'll be like rare times where you might need complete rest but often what we're looking at how can we keep somebody in sport because it's really important for their social connection in the summer and for their mood and so yeah so stretching strength work and reducing training if we need to.

Then we'll also see I suppose for girls is they're at a much higher risk of ACL injuries.

Yeah talk to me about that because that's getting more and more attention of late isn't it that women are more likely to experience an ACL injury women and girls do we know why?

Well, there's actually lots of different reasons.

So first of all, when we think of puberty and the changes the body experiences, so the pelvis will widen.

And so therefore, this can then have an effect on their neuromuscular control.

So let's say they're jumping and they're landing.

So like the strength then around their hip and their knee and their ankle.

Biomechanically, sometimes the knee can fall in a little bit more for girls because the pelvis is wider.

Hormonal changes can also have an impact.

And then, you know, are they're training properly?

Are they getting sufficient training to kind of combat the fact that some of these factors are at play?

OK, because you don't want to have that injury in the first place.