Your pelvic floor is the epicenter for the athlete

Beth Meade and Vivianne Meadema are two recent serious injuries in the women's match. Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage

We get to have general conversations about playing surfaces and shoe types or menstrual cycles, but each is only part of the conversation. Why are only eight percent of all football sports scientists women? Likewise with physicists, medical professionals and analysts, we need experts on the female body.

Therefore, there must be education from experts, and I don't really believe that most women's clubs should take an interdisciplinary approach to writing the right programs, to keep players on the pitch and reduce the chance of injury.

Women's sport as an entire industry lacks experience. It seems to me that we have a lot of people coming into the women's game with relatively little experience in their field, while, for example, in the men's premier league, they basically attract the best specialists, because they can afford to pay for the best.< /p>

I do not believe that anyone else will do something at the level that we do it at Chelsea. But it's about hiring the best people in the right positions, and everyone working as a team to be able to keep everyone on the field, and our communication is also critical. For example, it's often easy to ignore some small symptoms of hip pain if you're not experienced enough and you can ask someone to keep pushing — then a stress fracture suddenly develops. But with proper knowledge of the female body, injuries caused by other injuries can be avoided.

It is impossible to completely eliminate injuries from sports — there are always risks in competitions — but it is about minimizing risks. You need to know what red flags are and understand them, not ignore them.

You need to keep track of everything, and keep track of the minutes that players play, keep track of how many games they played in a calendar year. , keep track of when they get injured, identify red flags, and it's so multifactorial that it requires highly trained multidisciplinary teams to address the issue.

We wanted to be leaders at Chelsea for this reason, because we want people to invest in experience in women's fitness and women's sports. So, we have a women's health coach. We have a pelvic floor trainer. We have movement programs designed to help players cope with the various phases of their periods. Everything is individual for each player and his body, and we believe in these things with all our heart.

You may be reading this and asking, «Why do they have a pelvic floor trainer?» Well, your pelvic floor is the epicenter of everything for an athlete, especially. There are huge leakage problems with women. Over 50% of all athletes will have leakage problems because their pelvic floor is not as strong as others. Everything in your cortex develops from how strong your pelvic floor is, from what we have to deal with with our hips. These muscles control everything from urination to childbirth and engage the muscles in the lower abdomen to be able to thrive as an athlete, which is why a woman's pelvic strength is so important.

Of course, we're talking about injuries now, in part because England are missing one of their most important players, Kira Walsh, in Tuesday's World Cup game against China. We don't yet know what the full extent of her knee problems are, but thankfully it's not an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Her absence is undoubtedly a huge loss for England, as we saw in the second half of England's victory over Denmark. The Danish press put pressure on the England defense in the second half because they weren't so afraid to give way to the places Kira Walsh was in. We all wish her a speedy recovery.

However, injuries have ruled out many players from this tournament, as well as excluded key players from last year's Euro, and these problems will not go away until we have more experts in the industry and multi-faceted individual approach to each person's body.

Hayes on the World Cup: Japan impressed, but still wide open Japan midfielder Hinata Miyazawa celebrates his team's third goal against Spain. Photo: MARTY MELVILLE/AFP/AFP via Getty Images. . They have been impressive in all their games so far and not many teams in this World Cup can say that yet.

But still not a favorite; it is wide open. The average batch of teams has become bigger and stronger. The reason for all this is the number of professional players in world football. Professional leagues should pay tribute to player development.

Colombia's victory over Germany was amazing. Can you imagine when money from FIFA flows to more women's football teams and they really get the support they need, how far can a team like Colombia go?

If you were to compare the budgets of Germany or England for their women's national party to Colombia? This result on Sunday was the equivalent of Glasgow City's victory over Wolfsburg in the Women's Champions League against budget.

Many of the Colombian newcomers are now playing in Spain and playing very well in Spain, so it's no coincidence. The development of these players is not due to the Colombian national association; it's because of Spanish football.

Similar to how the Swiss team developed many players in Germany and Jamaica developed many players in England or America. Meanwhile, the coaches are getting better tactically.

Just look at Nigeria, they are playing 3-1 against Australia, they have a very experienced coach in Randy Waldrum who can instantly turn his team into a back five, boom . Coaching qualities are improving along with more professional players. This should no longer be considered a shock in football, it should become the norm.

I believe that the tournament is just getting started. But the most exciting thing is that it is no longer the privileged few who have always had the most money. We will see some exciting round of 16 games. Come on.