Table 2.
Challenges to implementing injury prevention and management in amateur female sport.
| Theme | Category | Sub-category | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challenges to injury prevention and management (2.0) | Female-specific issues (2.1) | Injury prevention challenges in female sport (2.1.1) | C03 “Maybe sometimes with the … the senior teams or junior teams. I suppose at that level you'd have a lot of younger girls playing against girls who were a lot bigger and a lot more physical with them. That's just the nature of the grading, I suppose…particularly in X County, I find there's just huge discrepancies in terms of ages and stuff” |
| Less injury prevention and management knowledge in female sport (2.1.2) | C05 “I really don't want to be disrespectful to anyone, but I do find on the ladies sports side of things … now they might be great coaches but they're a hell of a lot less educated in terms of S&C … or injury prevention” | ||
| Sexism and inequality in female sport (2.1.3) | P02 “Like I've had … you know I've had male coaches come up to me at halftime looking for a rub on the hamstring themselves and I can guarantee they wouldn't do that if that was the male physio that was there” | ||
| Educational challenges to injury epidemiology and treatment (2.2) | Lack of education and CPD (2.2.1) | C04 “and the knowledge I suppose of the people involved at club level, you know what they don't see, maybe strength and conditioning as a huge part of injury prevention” | |
| Poor understanding of female physiology (2.2.2) | GP03 “Uh knees, lot of knees, and like I don't know why knees, but the girls seem to struggle with knees” | ||
| Lack of resources (2.3) | Time capital (2.3.1) | P02 “Like it's hard enough to get management teams for … a lot of clubs, never mind trying to train them up to be implementing all this … this extra work (injury prevention)” | |
| Financial capital (2.3.2) | P06 “No, to be honest with you, I wouldn't think so at all, especially in … like let's be honest, it does cost clubs a bit money to have physio and medical personnel there. You know so especially the small community clubs, maybe the GAA ones out in the countryside at times, wouldn't be able to afford it” | ||
| Attitude capital (2.3.3) | P09 “Yes, so (smiles) coaches, what I think are barriers, coaches education. Some coaches are still…are still against S&C. Don't even mind injury prevention, you know? Like just old-fashioned ways and education and their kind of persistence with being kind of one way” |
CPD, continuing professional development.