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Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Broncos star suffers sickening head injury as he knocks himself out while trying to score a try - as Brisbane heap more pressure on under-fire coach
Brisbane fullback Reece Walsh came up with the big plays to sink Gold Coast and heap further pressure on Titans coach Des Hasler. Brisbane won their fifth game in a row 26-14 at Robina on Sunday to stay fifth in the NRL standings and keep alive their top-four hopes. But the victory was marred for Michael Maguire's side, as Brendan Piakura suffered a sickening head injury as he attempted to score a try. The second-rower knocked on early while attempting to score after an Adam Reynolds kick. The incident took place as he charged after the ball and slid to ground it while inside the in-goal area. But his head crashed into the turf and he worryingly stayed down for several moments. Several of the 23-year-old's team-mates quickly arrived by showed immediate concern as the forward lay on the ground with his head in the turf. 'He's not in a good way here, Piakura,' Fox League commentator Cooper Cronk said. He failed his HIA and did not return to the footy pitch. Brisbane will stay fifth in the NRL standings and keep alive their top-four hopes. The last-placed Titans had chances to win but failed to ice the key moments. It was a far from convincing display by the Broncos, who were error-riddled in the first-half. Luckily for them, their opponents were no better. Walsh scored a try and set one up when the match was on the line, while centre Kotoni Staggs was a powerhouse and the best player on the field. The scores were locked at 2-2 until the Broncos scored twice in the final four minutes of the first half to take a 14-2 halftime lead. The Broncos finally went over in the 34th minute, and it was rookie 26-year-old prop Ben Talty who scored his first NRL try in just his second match. Staggs swooped on a loose pass minutes later when it appeared the Titans would score, and back-rower Jack Gosiewski scored at the other end after a Walsh pass. Walsh started and finished a long-range try after the break and topped it off with a back-flip somersault to boot to give his side a 20-2 lead. Two tries to Titans centre Jojo Fifita inside nine minutes lit up the 24, 553 fans. An AJ Brimson grubber and a superb interchange between half Jayden Campbell and forward Chris Randall set up the four-pointers. The Titans went close to levelling before Broncos hooker Billy Walters scored at the other end. Speculation has been intense that Hasler is a dead man walking with his future prospects with the club, despite being contracted until the end of 2026. His side played with commitment on Sunday, but also a lack of attention to detail. Titans centre Brian Kelly had a shocker, with five errors costing his side dearly.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'Lucky' Adelaide goalsneak sent for surgery
Adelaide forward Josh Rachele has been sent for knee surgery, with an unclear timeline on when he'll play again. The 22-year-old has been cleared of serious ligament damage in his left knee injured in Sunday's win over Melbourne. But scans revealed Rachele tore a tissue at the back of the knee joint and also suffered bone bruising when landing awkwardly in a marking contest. The Crows will have a better understanding of Rachele's outlook post-surgery, the club's fitness boss Darren Burgess says. "He'll have surgery to elevate the bone in his knee and likely be in a brace for a few weeks," Burgess said. "Once out of the brace, we'll progress his training loads from there." Rachele was relieved when allayed of fears he'd torn his anterior cruciate ligament or posterior cruciate ligament. "Worst case scenario, your head goes to that (ACL) instantly, so I am very lucky ... structurally the ACL and PCL are all good," he told reporters. Rachele had been in the midst of a career-best scoring season, kicking 25 goals from a dozen games. But he'll likely be absent beyond third-placed Adelaide's season-shaping stretch against the Western Bulldogs, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide and Hawthorn.
Times
02-07-2025
- Sport
- Times
British and Irish Lions victory over Reds marred by injury to Elliot Daly
How do you interpret a grimace and a shake of the head? Frustration? Desolation? Resignation? Elliot Daly left the field at Suncorp Stadium with his left arm hanging limp and his British & Irish Lions tour in serious doubt. The concern over Daly was immediate after he went down in pain and he was taken to hospital for an x-ray. A serious injury to the England full back would hang like a cloud over this victory over Queensland Reds. The Lions scored eight tries and hit the half-century mark for the second time in four days. Some of their handling and attacking play hummed beautifully but there were some familiar concerns for head coach Andy Farrell in the number of handling errors and the quality of their set piece, with the Reds going after their scrum and lineout.
CNA
01-07-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Experts call for focus on risk factors to reduce ACL injuries in women's game
MANCHESTER, England :Breaking the cycle of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in women's football requires a shift in the conversation away from biological differences such as wide hips and hormonal fluctuations during menstruation, according to experts. Instead, the focus should be on risk factors that can be controlled, they say. Women's Euro 2025, which kicks off on Wednesday, will be without Swiss striker Ramona Bachmann who will miss the tournament in her home country after tearing her ACL less than three weeks ago, underscoring the devastation the knee injury can cause in the women's game. While studies show women are up to eight times more susceptible to ACL tears than men, there is scant research on the injury in professional women's football. "We want to move away from these kind of stereotypical views that women are just more susceptible to it because of the way that their bodies are," Alex Culvin, Head of Strategy and Research for Women's Football at global players' union FIFPRO, told Reuters. "They can't take the high workload, all of these quite nonsensical, illogical, overly kind of feminized ways of looking at ACL injury. "We really want to hone in on things that we can affect. We can't change women's physiologies but what we can change and what we can adapt and improve are the conditions in which ACL injuries occur." Culvin, a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, is part of Project ACL, a three-year study launched by FIFPRO, the Professional Footballers' Association, Nike and Leeds Beckett with the Women's Super League. There is interest in expanding the study to other women's leagues around the world. "Obviously you've got non-modifiable risk factors which are predominantly physiological but you've got modifiable risk factors which count for calendar, number of games, travel and then actual physical environments that players play in, their working environments, and that's what our focus is," said Culvin, who played professionally for Everton and Liverpool. Culvin is calling for minimum standards across the women's game to eliminate risk factors in the working environment, in areas such as access to physiotherapy and pitch condition. "We want to gather as much data around these environmental risk factors as possible and start to build out an evidence base that's not been built before on ACL injury," she said. STRESS HORMONES Dale Forsdyke, a Lecturer in Sports Injury Management at York St. John University in England, said psychological factors had to become part of the conversation around injury. "We often forget footballers are human and we forget that the life stresses that they're exposed to can be really significant. What does it do to their bodies?" Forsdyke said. "We know that it alters their stress hormones. We know that it can impair muscle repair from physical load, and it can give them some peripheral narrowing so their attentional focus goes. "There's obviously a behavioural mechanism with stress - if I can't deal with these stresses, then that's going to impact my sleep quality and quantity. And we know that sleep (is important) as a recovery strategy." Forsdyke said while some teams were starting to work with sleep specialists and include testing for the "stress hormone" cortisol as part of player health screening, if they employed a psychologist, it was usually reactionary. They were often consultants, brought in for injured players or when a problem occurred. Forsdyke spoke about psychological risk factors in injury to more than 500 medical professionals at the ninth UEFA Medical Symposium in Lugano, Switzerland, earlier this year. The symposium's focus for the first time was on women's football. UEFA's chief medical officer Zoran Bahtijarevic, who hosted the symposium, appealed to coaches at all levels to learn about preventative programmes in order to help reverse the ACL trend in the women's game. FIFA 11+, a warm-up programme aimed at preventing injuries, is one of the resources available to coaches. "We need the attention of coaches. We need the attention of parents," Bahtijarevic told Reuters. "Coaches have a great responsibility to educate themselves, to establish healthy habits of preventive exercises which are (unrewarding) because the result might be obvious only in 20 years. "But we want to make it a continuous effort to educate everybody involved that prevention is possible. It's boring because you have to repeat it two or three times a week, right? It's boring but efficient.
Indian Express
23-05-2025
- Health
- Indian Express
Are steroids, protein powders building muscle but damaging your hip bone? What young gym goers need to know
Can arbitrary use of gym steroids and protein powders damage the hip bone permanently? Orthopaedic experts are seeing hip bone damage and degeneration of the kind associated with the elderly among young people in their 20s, who may be picking up performance enhancers from gyms. Recently, the Maharashtra FDA also launched statewide checks on protein powders after several brands were found to be spiked with performance-enhancing steroids, many of which are freely available online or at gyms without proper labelling or approvals. According to Dr Gaurav Prakash Bhardwaj, Director, Sports Injury, Joint Preservation and Replacement Surgery, PSRI hospital, 'Steroid use is one of the most well-documented causes of Avascular Necrosis (AVN), a condition where bone tissue dies because of lack of blood supply. When taken in high doses or over a long period, especially without medical need, steroids can interfere with the blood supply to the bone.' There has been a noticeable rise in hip-related complaints among young individuals, especially those in their 20s and early 30s. They report persistent pain in the hip joint, difficulty walking, or stiffness, all linked to unsupervised gym workouts and supplement use. Abuse of steroids can also impact liver and cardiovascular health. Earlier, AVN was considered relatively rare in this group, but in recent years, we are seeing around 3 to 5 cases per month in some urban hospitals alone. This number may vary depending on the location, but overall, there is a clear upward trend. Many patients are unaware that their symptoms could point to a serious condition until the damage becomes severe. Medication can slow down degeneration, surgery is the last resort. Steroid use is one of the most well-documented causes of AVN. When taken in high doses or over a long period, especially without medical need, steroids can build up fat levels in the blood and bone marrow, obstructing blood vessels and interfering with blood supply to the bone. This eventually leads to bone tissue death and collapse of the hip joint. Similarly, excessive alcohol intake damages blood vessels and can also reduce blood flow to the hip, triggering AVN. The most affected age group is between 20 and 35 years. These are mostly fitness-conscious individuals who engage in intense workouts and are influenced by social media trends or body-building goals. Unfortunately, they are using steroids or unregulated protein supplements without medical supervision. We should regulate the supplement market, build gym hygiene with fitness trainers and insist on basic bone screening of gym goers.
