What is SWABA?

Strong Women are Better Athletes, or SWABA for short, is a blog-site created to bring young female athletes and their families the news and research they need to stay healthy and be competitive in their sport. Focused on ACL injury etiology and prevention, SWABA hopes to bring ACL injury awareness to a nation-wide level to help train better athletes and keep them healthy.

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Questions? Comments? kaleenee [at] gmail dot com

Reading List

Warrior Girls, by Michael Sokolove
Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries, by American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine

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Athlete suffers ACL Injury Video

Athlete suffers ACL injury

Check out this video of a young basketball player tearing her ACL during a game.

November 20th, 2009 | Category: ACL Injury Stories, Basketball | 2 comments

Rebecca Lobo Injury

Rebecca Lobo ACL Injury

ACL injuries caught on tape always make me cringe.  Not because they look painful, necessarily, but because it makes me remember the pain of my own.  Anyway, here’s a video of Rebecca Lobo (formerly of the WNBA’s New York Liberty) in 1999 when she tore her ACL.  She was chosen for the [...]

November 17th, 2009 | Category: ACL Injury Stories, Basketball, Professional Athletes | One comment

No ACL, No Problem?

NBA Rookie DeJuan Blair of the San Antonio Spurs has started his professional basketball career with no ACL in either knee!  And he’s doing pretty well, averaging 8.3 points and 8.3 rebounds!  How is this possible?  I usually don’t read men’s pro sports articles regarding ACL injuries, but when I read the headline No Ligaments, [...]

November 14th, 2009 | Category: ACL Injury Stories, ACL Reconstruction and Rehabilitation, Basketball, Professional Athletes, Professional Sports | One comment

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