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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For those football fans…

…who want to relate to something they know, here’s a site that talks about ACL injuries in football.  Most of them are contact (versus non-contact in young female athletes), but it is a good primer for those looking to understand their daughters/players a little better through a sport that they watch consistently.

Keep in mind, professional [...]

Science of Soccer Online

Calling all soccer lovers!  Check out this awesome blog called The Science of Soccer Online.  Talk about awesome!  I’d like to think that they are great inspiration for Strong Women are Better Athletes in the sense that they bring their subject-related research to the masses.  I don’t know about you, but research papers are mostly [...]

'Another reason girls have to be tougher than boys...'

ClubGas: ACL Injury

“Today on ClubhouseGas, another reason girls have to be tougher than boys.”

In this video, ClubHouseGas interviews Dr. David Marshall, an orthopedic surgeon, regarding ACL injuries in girls vs. boys.

I’d like to highlight one very important thing: Dr. Marshall points out that the quadriceps are ‘mirror muscles,’ meaning when you work your quads you [...]

The current status of ACL injury research

Dr. Jeff Cubos, a Chiropractor and author of the “evidence-informed sports health” blog, does a comprehensive review of the current status of ACL injury research, here.  The short post does a great job summarizing the main points in the full-length research article entitled “Non-contact ACL injuries in female athletes: an International Olympic Committee current concepts [...]

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