STA163: ’Football: Training Female Athletes as Females’ with special guest Michelle Lyons

This month on the podcast we’ve had RUGBY, we’ve had TENNIS, and now we turn our attention to FOOTBALL, specifically Women’s Football. Special guest Michelle Lyons, Women's Health Physio & creator of celebratemuliebrity.com, talks to us about her recent visit to FIFA Women's World Cup in Sydney, as part of a collaborative group of multidisciplinary professionals working together to produce the 'FIFA Women’s Health Report' to improve the landscape of female specific strategies to help female footballers. Michelle discusses important reasons for the differences in prevalence & type of injuries between female and male football players, and how seeing the menstrual cycle as a 'super power' as opposed to a 'curse' is vital in order to encourage females to stay in sport and reach their full potential.     Topics discussed (with time stamps): 0:00 Intro  1:15 Reminder of Ep.162 'Tennis: 24 Years at Wimbledon' with guest Steve Bedford  2:53 Welcome Michelle Lyons 7:32 A look at CelebrateMuliebrity.com   11:12 The gap in female athletes training, how needs are not being met 15:30 Are things getting better? 17:30 Example: Smoothies for different stages in the menstrual cycle      20:15 FIFA Women's Health Support: Multidisciplinary Care   28:45 Themes discussed at the Women's World Cup in Sydney   34:00 Seeing the menstrual cycle as a 'superpower' as opposed to a 'curse'  42:50 Concussion: differences between female & male anatomy 47:55 Apologies, we lost Michelle for three minutes! 50:55 The importance of education  55:44 The Women's Health Project Snapshot pdf: Free Download  56:47 Online Courses with Michelle Lyons 58:27 Michelle Lyons in the 'STA Update Theatre' at Therapy Expo 2023  Useful Links Details of courses at CelebrateMuliebrity.com FIFA Women's Health Project Snapshoty pdf (52 pages) Michelle Lyons Instagram: @michellelyons_muliebrity Michelle Lyons Twitter: @ml_muliebrity Michelle Lyons Facebook Our sincere thanks to Michelle Lyons for giving up her time to be a guest on the show! Want to join the live recordings? Episodes of the Sports Therapy Association podcast are recorded live every TUESDAY at 8pm on the Sports Therapy Association YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Everyone is welcome - you do not have to be an STA member! If you cannot join us live, be sure to subscribe to the 'Sports Therapy Association Podcast' on all popular podcast apps to be notified when new episodes are available. Please Support Our Podcast! If you appreciate what we do, please take a couple of minutes to leave us a rating & review on Apple Podcasts. It really does make all the difference in helping us reach out to a larger audience. iPhone users you can do this from your phone, Android users you will need to do it from iTunes. Questions? Email: [email protected]