🇦🇺 | PhD | Sports & Exercise Physio | Player Availability Coordinator @footballaus | FIFA l
Wollongong, Australia
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💥🇦🇺⚽️ Excited to see the official release of the new @FootballAUS primary injury prevention and risk reduction programs - Football Australia Perform+ and Fundamentals+.
footballaustralia.com.au/per…
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.@FootballAUS today released a suite of free Injury Prevention, Warm Up and Performance resources designed to assist players at all levels of the sport to reduce their risk of injury, perform better on the field and to be available to play more football, more often.
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Calf Injuries: An Anatomy-Based Approach to #Diagnosis, Management and Return to #Sport
Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine ( fresh 2026)
Free online access here 👇
link.springer.com/epdf/10.10…
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Another reason to prevent ACL injuries
New @BJSM_BMJ paper shows the risk of TKR increases 3X after having ACL reconstruction. I really wish these studies were able to correlate that to quad strength. Always seems to be underreported.
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By bringing together all stakeholders involved in player health surveillance to discuss key challenges and facilitate data-sharing and quality research, @FIFAcom are able to inform discussions related to player health, such as match workload.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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📣 NEW #PhDAcademyAward 🏆
Co-designing a year-round injury surveillance system 📄
Longitudinal monitoring for a small-nation football team ⚽️
Article ➡️ bit.ly/4vzAvZq
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Grit. Determination. Belief. This is How we Waltz.
Will you come a-Waltzing Matilda with me? 🗣️💚💛
#Matildas #HowWeWaltz #TilitsDone #WAC2026
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With the heartbreaking news for Kyra's mum, Jess, and her family, all profits from my Arsenal shop this weekend will go towards the GoFundMe set up to support & ease their burden.
If people are happy to share this, then please do.
Love to Jess, Kyra and family ❤️🤍
Link below
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Great advice👇
Just in case if you can't follow this program, at least do one of the "easy classics" at least twice a week, they are PROVEN to reduce risks of ACL injury and take approximately 10 minutes:
FIFA11+
Knäkontroll (🇸🇪)
Football Australia Perform+
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ACL Injury Prevention for Girls Soccer Players: A PROGRAM that Must Be COACHED, Not Just a Few Exercises from TikTok
NEW BLOG:
ericasuter.com/acl-injury-pr…
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Our squad for our final games of the year! 📋
🇦🇺v🇳🇿 28.11.25 - 7:30pm AEDT - Gosford
🇦🇺v🇳🇿 2.12.25 - 8pm ACDT - Adelaide
🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/Matildastickets
#Matildas #FeelNewSouthWales @NewSouthWales
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What an achievement from @rousse_yohan 🙏
Cold, Heat, Hypoxia and Contrast Therapies on Muscle Recovery from exercise-induced muscle damage
5 markers of recovery:
muscular performance
joint amplitude
muscle pain
swelling
biomarkers
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Modifiable risk factors for female/woman/girl athlete LE injuries bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2…
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195 studies have assessed associations between potential risk factors and 🦵 injuries across 1,525,662 athletes. Only 2.4% were females/women/girls & only 115 reported female/woman/girl specific data. Lots of room for improvement #FAIRdreamteam
⚠️ Modifiable risk factors for lower-extremity injury
NEW systematic review and meta-analysis for the Female, Woman and Girl Athlete Injury Prevention (FAIR) consensus 📄
Article ➡️ bit.ly/47YMfev
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Our latest work is finally out 📄🧵 @DawnScott06 @ric_lovell @JoClubbSportSci
Huge shoutout to @heidithornton09 for leading this study 👏💡
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The CommBank Australian U23s begin their #AFCU23 Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2026 Qualifiers with a big win in Xian over Northern Mariana Islands.
⚽ Blair 5', 20', 46', 48'
⚽ Rawlins 8', 12'
⚽ Alagich 18', 44'
⚽ Dukuly 36', 69'
⚽ Bozinovski 54'
⚽ Reec 59' 70'
⚽ Hammond 90+4'
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Matt Whalan retweeted
Benchmarking the Physical Performance Qualities in Women’s Football #SystematicReview by @heidithornton09 @ric_lovell @DawnScott06 @JoClubbSportSci @shushan_tzlil link.springer.com/article/10… #OpenAccess @FIFAMedical
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Twice #ASEANU16W participants, twice champions 💪
A new generation get their own trophy to lift 🇦🇺
#AUSvTHA
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RT! If you are a physician working with an African NOC, here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: IOC Advanced Courses for NOC Team Physicians, Dakar, Senegal, Nov 3-8 2025. If you qualify, IOC covers all costs! Two (1M/1F) from each country. Translation English/French.
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In a tournament of senior national teams, an U23 XI of Ninja A-League stars just brought home silverware for Australia 🇦🇺🏆👏
🏅 @gomvfc’s Holly Furphy led the way with four goals.
⚽️ Six local league stars found the net over the course of the tournament.
🔒 The defence kept three clean sheets in five games, conceding just three goals all tournament.
Now, they’re coming home to gear up for Ninja A-League season 2025/26 🙌
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