The passage of the ninth title in 1972 raised a seismic change in women’s sports, giving equal opportunities for countless athletes to follow their sports emotions. As Dr. Heather Bergson says, it was great for a woman in several ways. However, as the Medical Director of Women’s Sports Medicine at Tria, a bone assistant professor at Minnesota University and a team doctor at Goopher Athletics, she also notes that there are some unintended consequences.
In particular, these sports programs began to deal with women’s sports training as for men. “Mathematics differ in many ways,” says Dr. Bergson. “We have a different dissection and hormonal fluctuations, different ways in which we have.” As the same training and air conditioning programs that worked for men, they were applied to women, and the unique challenges that faced mathematics that faced unrecognized in the sports research community for decades.
But the tide has turned as the various needs of mathematics became more famous. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Heather Seachanovsky, the TRIA sporting program was the first in the region and is currently the only one of its kind in twin cities. In this episode of Off Listen to the episode or read the text.
The importance of a specific program
With a team of sports medicine doctors, orthopedics, natural therapists, sports nutritionists and research scientists, the sports medicine program for sporting women through comprehensive care. Dr. Berguson also describes the program, “(We) (we) is interested in mathematics of all ages and capabilities … where we take into account all things that may lead to the root cause of the reason we are there.” These include health concerns such as menstrual cycle issues, hormonal fluctuations and bone health.
The program also realizes how health intersects with the touch points that women face throughout their lives. So, whether it is puberty or pregnancy, or whenever we reach (and after menopause, our bodies change in some amazing ways, and do some amazing things along the way. But with those times, there are different things that can affect our health and the way we train as athletes and treat injuries. “
It is this knowledge that pushes the specialized approach that focuses on the woman that patients want. For example, if someone comes with pain of Shen, among the first questions they ask about the history of menstruation. The presence of irregular periods can highlight relevant problems such as low energy and decreased bone density. If SHIN show signs of stress in the bone, questions that involve nutrition, body image and training can be discussed. Answers can lead to specialized examinations and treatments that bring many team members to provide comprehensive care, including a physiotherapist and athletic nutritionist. The program together brings together a harmonious team specifically for mathematics needs and is looking for conditions associated with female bodies, using all the resources needed to help and support athletes. As a result, injuries are treated and rehabilitated to help prevent them from happening again.
ACL injuries are the most common infection for women
As Dr. Bergison, her team and colleagues see that this happens more for women than men, the menu is very specific: concussion, bone stress injuries, osteoporosis, dumping away (kneecap) and disturbing the shoulder. But at the top of the list, there is an injury described by Dr. Bergson as the tears of the devastating destroyed in particular – the front cruciate ligament (ACL).
Dr. Bergson says there is a variety of possible reasons. “… hormonal fluctuations … the quadruple (hyperactivity) … at the smaller acLS (women) of the hips, which changes the angle on our knees.” But there is also a well -known training issue that overlooks the expansion and air conditioning that can prevent ACL tears. In fact, there are firm muscle nervous training programs that are found to reduce the ACL tears rate in sports by up to 80 %.
Unfortunately, the ACL provision of the ACL provision in these programs is not widely used-a problem that operates the TRIA program on the issue, as well as the play of the ASPEN Institute project and the National ACL injury coalition. Many coaches in women’s sport are volunteers from parents who need to weave many training in their routine, including those to prevent concussion. But as Dr. Bergson says, the training that focuses on the ACL is simple, and it takes only 10 minutes and can be integrated into the warm -up process. As of now, however, it is still universally not dependent.
Unfortunately, great ACL tears. Although it can heal, it can be reinforced, and the ability to return to the same level of play before the injury is not great. In fact, when athletic parents ask an ACL injury when their child can return to play, Dr. Berguson believes that the best question is, “Should they return?” While professional athletes have extensive resources to return from ACL tears, the best treatment for young athletes is prevention. For this reason, Tria and its partners work to find a solution to keep players free of injuries and play.
Working with a body image
Many women who come to Tria participate in sports that focus on the aesthetic of the body such as ballet, dance and bodybuilding. While injuries in this sport can be similar to those that occur in fitness sports such as football and path, disturbed eating disorders can play a role. For this reason, discussing the body image is part of the program’s treatment approach.
The treatment of the body’s image is a conversation for Dr. Bergson several times a day. “We are really trying to focus on body confidence. Your body knows what to do. Just just as we cannot control our height or the size of our feet, we cannot completely control what our weight will be. He wants to be at a specific point, and we have to honor that. We have to honor our hunger signals.”
For help, Tria focuses on intuitive eating and mental movement – all of this coincides with the dietitian and the physiotherapist of the team. Comprehensive weight care is available, but after programmed feeding is not a rigid expectation of patients. Instead, the focus is more on how a woman feels more confident towards the bodies they enjoy.
“Sometimes there is a discussion where we must be sad for the ideal body loss. This is our genes, this is our genetics, so what is meant is that our body is. Let’s celebrate that and all the things that you can do.” It is an important discussion that affects women all over life, especially as it moves from adolescence to adulthood to menopause. It is also decisive discussions of its presence outside the clinic, constantly at home and in this field.
To hear more Dr. Perguson, including how to compensate for women’s sports medicine for lost time, what approaches to women are for what works better for men, and details about the upcoming sports summit in March 2026, listen to this episode of the plans.