The musculoskeletal health of retired elite women footballers
Musculoskeletal complaints, especially knee-related issues, are common among retired elite women's footballers, and are associated with severe injuries during a player's career. Collaborative injury prevention efforts are likely to lead to positive health benefits for current, future and former elite women's footballers.
Authors
- Sean Carmody (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8683-5532)
- Gino Kerkhoffs
- Andrew Massey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8253-932X)
- Vincent Gouttebarge
Institutions
- Fédération Internationale de Football Association (CH)
- Academic Center for Evidence-Based Sports Medicine (NL)
- Institute for Musculoskeletal Health (AU)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Physician and Sportsmedicine
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.2026.2625648
- Primary Topic
- Sports injuries and prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00