Posters to help make sport safer
The Well HQ have produced some posters that give valuable info for women. They are available for you to display at your club. CEO and Co-Founder of The Well HQ, Baz Moffat explains more.
The Well HQ works with governing bodies and brands to help them create educational content on female health for those supporting women and girls in sport.
We want to normalise conversations around female health so that everyone feels able to talk about it and it isn’t considered a taboo topic.
We’ve also written the instant Sunday Times Bestseller ‘The Female Body Bible’, which is a book covering all aspects of female health, and all the things that nobody seems to tell you!
We also have online courses for coaches to do specifically on female health which are mapped to the CIMSPA standard and cover puberty, pre/post natal and the menopause.
We’ve been creating content on female athlete health for a couple of years now. Last year, we were sat in a review meeting with the FA. It looked at the work we’d done for them in the professional game and they’d gathered a wide group to give feedback.
That’s when the conversation started about safe guarding - which is a prime example of the value in having diversity of thought, experience and knowledge around the table.
Safer Sport posters
The safer sport posters were designed to accompany the education we created on pelvic health, sports bras and breast injury to keep the athletes and coaches safe.
The content on the posters explains what is and isn’t normal in the 3 specific topics and who can and can’t do what.
If you think about drugs testing in sport, athletes have really clear training around what to expect with in and out of competition testing. So if anything doesn’t seem right with the process they know exactly what to do.
However, this kind of information is not out there right now when it comes to female athlete health.
We wanted to make sure that girls and women and those supporting them know what’s OK for a coach to talk about. It’s important that they knew what to do if they need help or support, what to expect from whom, and if they’re worried where they can go.
It sounds really basic – but it’s so important.
Athletes are vulnerable and women feel unsafe in sporting environments. The last thing we want to do is fuel the belief that sport is dangerous for girls and women, far from it.
We believe that education is power. If we are a educated on what to expect and what is normal, then we will know when things are not normal.
It’s really important that we know what’s going to happen if we go for a pelvic floor assessment or a bra fit.
Anyone can use the posters. They can print them out, laminate them and stick them up in toilets, changing rooms, physio rooms around the country. We want everyone to be able to have access to these.
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