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.

Contact

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 [...]

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, [...]

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