Light, ice & pain – Galligan wins WXV recovery race

WXV - United States v England

Venue: BC Place, Vancouver Date: Sunday, 29 September Kick-off: 20:30 BST Coverage: Live connected BBC Sport website and BBC iPlayer

Second statement Rosie Galligan says she followed a high-tech betterment strategy "hour by hour" to retrieve successful clip for England's WXV campaign.

The 26-year-old has not played for England since April, erstwhile she collapsed her thumb successful a pre-match warm-up, and past suffered a superior ft injury.

"It was benignant of touch and spell if I would make this tour," she said.

"I did everything possible. I utilized a batch of reddish ray therapy, which, from my research, stimulates mitochondria to thief treatment successful muscles, bones and ligaments.

"I was beautiful overmuch attached to an crystal instrumentality anytime I wasn't doing rehabilitation, and I spent a batch of clip connected nan physio furniture arsenic well.

"I decidedly put everything into it. I followed my schedule hr by hr and time by day. Basically, thing to springiness myself that other 1% recovery."

Red ray therapy has been claimed to thief nan regeneration of cells successful nan assemblage and trim inflammation.

Galligan is simply a seasoned of erstwhile battles for fitness.

She contracted meningitis successful September 2019 and, soon aft her return, collapsed her ankle, requiring 4 pins to beryllium inserted successful nan joint.

However, she recovered to gain her spot successful nan England squad that vanished arsenic runners-up successful nan Rugby World Cup successful 2022. She says nan Red Roses are putting successful unprecedented levels of conditioning activity to spell 1 amended adjacent year.

"It has been specified a reliable pre-season for nan girls, a batch of nan older girls will opportunity it is nan toughest they person ever done," said Galligan.

"We are seeing each our difficult activity salary disconnected and it is coming done successful our performances. Our magnitude of ball-in-play clip has gone up massively. If we are uncovering that difficult arsenic 1 of nan fittest teams, past ideate what nan guidance are feeling.

"We person besides played much successful our ain half. In nan past that has ne'er been nan case, it has been a accepted footwear retired and past effort and dress up crushed connected nan guidance broadside of nan field."

England's wins complete France and New Zealand earlier this period stretched their winning streak to 17 matches earlier nan commencement of nan WXV1 tourney successful Canada this weekend.

England commencement their title defence against nan United States connected Sunday.