Pregnancy & Postpartum Research, Moms in Contact Sports & Football — with Emma Brockwell

In this episode, I sit down Emma Brockwell, a pelvic health physiotherapist who treats women of all ages with all women’s health-related conditions. She is also the pelvic health physiotherapist for many of the Women’s Football Super League clubs, as well as consulting for FIFA and the Netball Super League. 

She co-founded The Athletic Female, an online education program for anyone working with female athletes. Emma also co-authored the UK’s first Return to Running Postnatal Guidelines, and wrote her own book, Why Did No One Tell Me?

We Talk About:

-running through pregnancy & postpartum

Time Stamps

1:00 Introduction

8:25 the rise of the professional female athlete

15:29 investigations risks of contact 

20:40 making individual decisions

27:43 taking the comparison out of pregnancy

35:13 breastfeeding and injuries

43:40 the importance of sleep

47:30 RED-s and low energy availability

57:17 rapid fire questions

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