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- It's a fact: women athletes are more prone to suffering certain sports injuries than their male counterparts, particularly when it comes to knee and ACL problems. The difference lies in the interplay between form, alignment, body composition, physiology, and physical performance.
www.bidmc.org/about-bidmc/wellness-insights/sports-medicine-and-fitness/2016/06/women-and-sports-injuries-why-its-a-different-game
Jun 22, 2020 · Why are women more prone to these injuries than men? There is probably a combination of factors that contribute to the higher incidence of injuries among female athletes. And we have more theories than actual answers.
- hhp_info@health.harvard.edu
Jan 31, 2020 · Women athletes are twice as likely as men to get concussed and the effects are more severe, but with research focusing mainly on men, is concussion in women being overlooked?
Mar 24, 2016 · Neuromuscular factors appear to be the most important reason for the higher rate of ACL injuries in females compared to males. 6 The at-risk situations for noncontact ACL injuries appear to be deceleration, cutting or changing directions, and landing. 5 Prior to the injury, an awkward dynamic body movement and a perturbation event are usually ...
Feb 14, 2020 · In fact, certain injuries, including ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) tears, ankle sprains, and stress fractures, turn out to be even more common in female athletes than they are in males. The reasons why are not clear—and more research is needed—but prevailing theories point to the anatomical differences between men and women, hormones ...
- carrie.macmillan@yale.edu
Jun 1, 2009 · A significantly higher proportion of male (92%) than female soccer players (79%, p < 0.05) reported at least one injury during the past twelve months. The same trend was found in long-distance runners, among whom 68% of female and 82% of male runners reported injury (p = 0.06 between the sexes).
- Leena Ristolainen, Ari Heinonen, Benjamin Waller, Urho M. Kujala, Jyrki A. Kettunen
- J Sports Sci Med. 2009 Sep; 8(3): 443-451.
- 2009
- 2009/09
For example, in the US, among 15 to 19 year olds, males are 2.5 times as likely as females to die of any unintentional injury, and about five times as likely to die of homicide or suicide. The sex difference is most pronounced in drowning, where males are more that 10 times as likely to die as females of the same age.
Women are not small men. There are unique physical and hormonal differences for women that affect strength-training and conditioning, injury prevention, rehabilitation and performance optimization. There needs to be a significant investment in this research.
