Lowry O'Mahony

So it's trying to avoid the occurrence, isn't it?

Yeah, absolutely.

And this got real, I suppose, notice because it was at the World Cup last year or the last female World Cup, there was 30 players unable to play because of ACL injuries.

And so females are three to seven times more likely to get these injuries.

But the good news is that there's really good programs out there that coaches can implement before they do a training session.

And they're available online and they have been shown to reduce risk of ACL injury by 40 to 60%.

And so the GAA have a programme, that's the GAA 15+.

So FIFA have, FIFA 11+, I think it's the GAA 15.

And then rugby have Elevate.

So they're really good programmes that our athletes should be doing to reduce their risk.

And well worth it if it's going to reduce the incidence of it by 40 to 60%.

You did say there that it's really important to keep them playing and that's what you want to do while you're treating this.

But when do you get to the point where you can't push through or you shouldn't push through?

Yeah.

When you can see that your child is limping, okay, you know, if pain isn't settling within 24 hours, if your child is limping, if they're talking about night pain, if you start to see that their mood changes a little bit, you know, I think sometimes younger people, they're not as good at expressing if they're in pain.

And I think if you're seeing mood changes, limping, if there are tissue changes as well, of course, like if you are noticing swelling, redness, heat, that sort of irritation.

And then if they're saying to you,

I can't go training.

You know, these are all kind of really big combined kind of reasons to say maybe we need to stop and have a look at this.

So when that happens, when you have those factors, what is the next step?