Broken Arm? Women Recover Muscle Strength More Slowly Than Men, After Cast Is Removed
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 20:28
in Health & Medicine
Women are four times more likely than men to experience a broken forearm and require a cast (immobilization). To examine if casting had an effect on gender, researchers immobilized a limb from among volunteers of both sexes. They found men were able to regain 99 percent of their strength within a week of removing the cast, but women's strength was still 30 percent lower than before the cast was applied.