Vodafone, who is a partner of Wales Women’s and Girls rugby, has added menstrual cycle tracking to their platform, which aggregates data via wearable devices; recent research has found 67 per cent of female athletes believe period symptoms “severely impact” their performances
Last Updated: 12/04/23 10:39pm
Wales are using the new technology during the 2023 Women’s Six Nations
Wales Women are using new menstrual cycle tracking technology during the Six Nations in an attempt to advance the management of period-related symptoms for female athletes.
Vodafone, who is a founding principal partner of Wales Women’s and Girls rugby, has added menstrual cycle tracking to their PLAYER.Connect platform, which aggregates data from athletes’ wearable devices.
The project follows recent studies, which showed that 67 per cent of female rugby players believe menstrual cycle-related symptoms severely impact their performance.
“Despite 93 per cent of female rugby players reporting menstrual cycle-related symptoms and 67 per cent believing these severely impair their performances, there is limited guidance available on how players can best manage this,” PLAYER.Connect head of performance Alex Skelton said.
“Being able to directly link each athletes’ menstrual cycle stage to their performance data provides a massive advantage in how we can begin to tackle this issue, by allowing coaches and analysts to move away from ‘catch-all’ solutions.”
The technology gathers data on players’ performance, menstrual cycle phases and mental and physical …