{"id":292069,"date":"2025-11-18T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292069\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:14:13","slug":"gwen-crabb-wales-and-gloucester-hartpury-lock-on-playing-rugby-with-endometriosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292069\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Crabb: Wales and Gloucester-Hartpury lock on playing rugby with endometriosis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gwen Crabb has had to endure more than her fair share of injuries during her rugby career.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Wales lock has just had her fourth surgery and is currently undergoing what she affectionately dubs “knee-hab 4.0”.<\/p>\n

But Crabb’s latest diagnosis has been a different blow. <\/p>\n

After years of living with painful periods, she has finally had the diagnosis of endometriosis.<\/a><\/p>\n

For a time, she said, she was able to “get on with it” but matters reached breaking point during Wales’ pool match against Canada at the 2025 World Cup.<\/p>\n

“All I could think about was ‘when is the pain going to stop?’,” said Crabb.<\/p>\n

“I was in so much pain that every now and then I was like ‘oh yeah, I’m playing rugby’.<\/p>\n

“The way I try to explain it is if you’re in an ice bath all you can think about is that you’re in an ice bath and how cold you are \u2013 that’s how I felt with the pain.<\/p>\n

“It was really difficult to be in the moment and concentrate on what the next play is, what am I doing in this lineout and trying to be fully present.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gwen Crabb has had to endure more than her fair share of injuries during her rugby career. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-292069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}