Confabulation wrote:
I'd appreciate a link to back up your claim of women having a 50% higher risk for stress fractures than men. I think you just made that up, but who knows? Don't be offended; but it's pretty commonplace to spout bullish!t here, and expect everyone to take it at face value.
The studies range from a low of 50% higher to much greater, I was using one of the more conservative numbers. Here are some links:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3702771/A systematic review by Wentz and colleagues showed that the incidence of stress fractures was approximately 9.2 % in female military recruits, 3 % in male military recruits, 9.7 % in female athletes, and 6.5 % in male athletes.
(Math note, 9.7% is 50% higher than 6.5%)
Here is another
http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/ricard/Classes/KINE-5305/Outliers%201.pdfWomen are reported to be at significantly greater risk, with one study reporting a twofold increase of bilateral stress fractures over men. Similarly, the incidence of stress fractures in women college athletes was
double that of men at a Division I institution.
There are biological and structural differences between the genders and it is important for coaches to know these factors. I coach competitive girls soccer, and the incidence of ACL tears in girls soccer is 4-8 times that in boys soccer:
https://www.usyouthsoccer.org/news/acl_injury_and_the_female_soccer_player/It's not sexist to say these things, it is biology backed with statistics.