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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