Mayo hope player welfare scheme will reduce injuries

Mayo GAA are hoping a pioneering player welfare initiative will reduce injuries throughout the county over the coming years.

The creation of the scheme, which will be launched in Castlebar’s An Sportlann today, is aimed at helping inter-county managers, medical personnel and clubs by tracking and recording injuries. This information will be fed back to the team managements to help limit the risk of injuries which in turn will reduce the costs of funding teams at all levels.

“For the last two years at senior level the injuries were tracked and the management was able to tailor the warm-up specifically to avoid injuries. We saw an overall reduction of injuries by 20%,” said county board PRO Aiden McLoughlin.