{"id":23841,"date":"2021-01-18T03:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=23841"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:01:26","slug":"scans-reveal-extent-of-aflw-defenders-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=23841","title":{"rendered":"Scans reveal extent of AFLW defender&#039;s injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/gws-giants-adelaide-crows-aflw-brid-stack-hospital-spinal-injury\/44c0bb66-ca3b-4f19-95f2-526445cf0388\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The sight of Greater Western Sydney defender Brid Stack being stretchered from an AFLW match and into an ambulance with a possible spinal injury put loved ones in anxious wait\">The sight of Greater Western Sydney defender Brid Stack being stretchered from an AFLW match and into an ambulance with a possible spinal injury put loved ones in an anxious wait<\/a>, but the situation isn&#x27;t as bad as was feared.<\/p>\n<p>Scans have revealed the Irishwoman has a stable fracture of the C7 vertebra and no injury to the surrounding nerves. She does not require surgery but will wear a neck brace in the short term.<\/p>\n<p>Stack was released from hospital late yesterday to rejoin the Giants&#x27; AFLW squad, who are based in Adelaide for at least the next two weeks, and will remain in Australia as she works through her rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#x27;s practice match between the Giants and Adelaide Crows at Norwood Oval ended early when Stack was injured in a tackle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWSGIANTS\/status\/1351009730278383617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWSGIANTS\/status\/1351009730278383617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GWS head of women&#x27;s football Briana Harvey addressed the situation in a statement released by the club.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This was an incredibly unfortunate accident and we&#x27;re thankful that Brid has avoided serious injury,&quot; Harvey said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Brid and her family have made incredible sacrifices to come to Australia to play in the AFLW competition and we will be supporting them all the way through her recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#x27;d like to thank all those who provided Brid with the best possible care both at the ground and in hospital across Sunday.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The sight of Greater Western Sydney defender Brid Stack being stretchered from an AFLW match and into an ambulance with a possible spinal injury put <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=23841\" title=\"Scans reveal extent of AFLW defender&#039;s injury\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23842,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions\/23842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}