FA announces new measures to improve female athlete health

The Women’s Super League (WSL) has introduced new measures geared toward enhancing information and offering help in “various areas of female athlete health” for golf equipment within the WSL and Women’s Championship.

The high two leagues within the girls’s recreation in England have been working with female athlete help specialists, The Well HQ, since 2020 to higher help their gamers. The collaboration between the 2 noticed the publication of the ‘The State of Play Project’ report, which was based mostly on insights from intensive surveys and interviews carried out with gamers and employees members at golf equipment.

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The report led to the creation of FootballHER: CPD [Continuing Professional Development] For All, a web-based course for workers throughout each WSL and Women’s Championship golf equipment that was launched in October 2023.

The course supplies a “holistic approach to female health”, with modules on menstrual cycle and efficiency, pelvic health and fertility amongst others.

Now as well as, every membership will likely be requested to nominate an present member of help employees to be named as their Female Athlete Health Lead (FAHL) to set up “leadership and accountability” for female health at golf equipment.

The 24 FAHLs will likely be educated and supported by The Well HQ, together with a course in Spring 2024 that may present detailed classes on a number of matters linked to FootballHER.

The golf equipment, together with the England girls’s crew, can even obtain greatest apply pointers on being pregnant & post-natal care, menstrual cycle health and pelvic health all through 2024

“The women’s professional game in England will be the first to have football specific CPD for coaches and performance support staff, and to mandate a female athlete health lead in each club,” Dr Emma Ross, chief scientific officer at The Well HQ, said in a statement.

England supervisor Sarina Wiegman too lauded the initiative in a information convention on Monday.

“I think we’re really happy to see that. It’s really good and also very necessary,” she mentioned.

“There needs to be more research and support too and this is another step in the right direction. It’s really good, we have to keep going and doing research which will take time to make it the best for women in sport.”

“We need to do what’s best for them.”