Female athletes injured more than male athletes

Monday, January 25, 2010 - 14:35 in Psychology & Sociology

Female athletes experience dramatically higher rates of specific musculoskeletal injuries and medical conditions compared to male athletes. That's because many training programs developed for female athletes are built on research using young adult males and don't take the intrinsic biological differences between the sexes into account.

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