Wales Women are using a menstrual-cycle tracking app in an effort to improve the team’s performances at the Women’s Six Nations.
The WRU will also use the data to see if it can help prevent the ACL injuries that have plagued the squad in recent months. Gwen Crabb, the lock, has been ruled out of the rest of the Six Nations because of a ruptured ACL sustained in the first round. Alisha Butchers, Megan Webb and Donna Rose have been unavailable after suffering similar injuries at the World Cup.
“There is some evidence that towards the mid-cycle, when we’re near ovulation, there’s some ligament laxity and potentially a higher risk for ligament injury,” Jo Perkins, the head physiotherapist for Wales Women, said. “The research is
