Girls were cuter and sweeter then with better posture, and they weren’t fat.
Not sure but I’d believe it. With wider pelvises, the angles of their femurs are more inward than mens, vertical stresses put more stress on the femur even though women weigh less and also have less upper body mass than men. Further mens muscles are denser (plus we have more) and can take more stress than females. We have significantly more fast twitch fibers and thats what makes our muscle fibers denser.
So I completely believe this is plausible.
Yes.
I notice the source is Yale. Are we supposed to pretend that both sexes are the same?
Yes they are.
Because their hips are wider the knees are more susceptible to lateral damage. This is especially true for basketball players.
The WNBA has been shedding players left and right due to knee injuries. The last straw and last entertaining player to leave with an ACL is tough than nails is Sophie Cunningham, and she said the hit that put her down was clean. The women don’t have the quod strength unless you’re maybe Angel Reese. They have small rosters, the bench campers aren’t always a big inprovement, and many on the bench are less than half strength themselves. The rosters aren’t big enough the schedule is too tight, the refereeing is just a water downed street ball league: no blood no foul.
I studied up on this when my daughter was big into rhythmic gymnastics, dance and figure skating.
If women/girls train or play like boys, they see more knee injuries because of their different physiology.
I recall reading that the risk can be mitigated somewhat if girls are taught/trained to play differently than boys.
Just like my son who was prone to ankle sprains. I told to him to be conscientious and recognize his limitations by actively avoiding dangerous behavior (wild jumping for rebounds or blocking shots in his case w/o thinking about landing safely).
In my experience, liberal tears are more common.
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The sourcing & tone of this ‘discussion’ raises questions...
...because it sure sounds like Yale is asserting that female athletes ought be genuinely female (”hormones” & “menstrual cycles,” etc.).
Women definitely cry more ACL tears than men do.
Q Angle being larger puts more stress from the hips to the foot
https://www.physio-pedia.com/Q_Angle
And it not just athletic women… it’s all women. Even couch potato women…More hip bursitis, the patellar tracking syndrome etc
From personal experience of training girls soccer team: ACL injuries started only when players hit their puberty. Clearly, hormonal change makes the ligaments less resilient to mechanical stress.
All these tears are probably just caused by creatine-caused higher water levels in muscles.