Michael A Girdwood

2026

Knee health and associations with female-specific health, physical, psychological and social-gendered factors in women runners: the TRAIL-W cohort study protocol.

BMJ open sport & exercise medicine ·doi:10.1136/bmjsem-2025-003132

IntroductionRunning is a popular recreational activity worldwide, with women's participation growing rapidly over the past decade. Compared with men, women runners are more likely to sustain a running-related injury, such as bone stress and…

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Women-Specific Health Factors in Community-Level Australian Football Players

Journal of sport rehabilitation ·doi:10.1123/jsr.2025-0094

CONTEXT: Women's participation in Australian Football has increased rapidly since the Australian Football League's Women's launch in 2017. We aimed to describe the sociodemographic factors as well as general medical and women-specific healt…

2025

Head, Hands, Knees and Ankles, Knees and Ankles: Injury Profiles of Women and Girls Playing Community Australian Football.

Sports health ·doi:10.1177/19417381241303512

BackgroundWomen's participation in all football codes (including Australian Football [AF]) is increasing rapidly. To guide injury prevention strategies, the authors aimed to describe the current and lifetime prevalence of significant muscul…