May 22, 2025
Locked On Women’s Basketball: PT WNBA injury roundtable
By The Next
Hannah Kevorkian and Lucas Seehafer join the podcast to talk about injuries across the WNBA
On the latest episode of Locked On Women’s Basketball, host Chelsea Leite talks WNBA injuries with two fellow contributors as The Next. Her guests, Hannah Kevorkian and Lucas Seehafer, are both physical therapists. Seehafer is also responsible for creating and maintaining our WNBA Injury Tracker.
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Their conversation starts with the most dreaded acronym in women’s sports, ACL. Kevorkian and Seehafer share some of the research and reasoning here for the commonality of the injury before revealing that there have actually been more ankle injuries in the league since 2023.
“From the 2023 season, up until our recording here on May 21, there’s been 77 ankle injuries, and that’s by far the most compared to 56 knee injuries,” Seehafer said, referencing his tracker. “And then, actually, the third most common injury, so to speak, is just general illness. So lateral ankle sprains, or outside ankle sprains, are the most common.”
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In the second segment, they switch the discussion to injury prevention and the measures teams are taking to keep their athletes healthier.
“Something important to note with athletes and prevention overall is that everything is going to be very individualized,” Kevorkian said. “So we want to be looking at their individual risk factors and what they need for their body. Do they have pre-existing injuries that are going to impact their warm-up? Do they need to have extra time?
“For example, if somebody had an Achilles rupture that they’re recovering from, do they need to spend a little bit extra time before they warm up, you know, working on ankle mobility. So I think something that we really just need to take into consideration when it comes to prevention is to make everything individual and look at that athlete as a whole. And what can we be doing to better, you know, gear their program to their needs?”
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