Study into female footballers & ACL injuries.

[Bedfordblue]

Apparently woman footballers are up 7x more likely to suffer ACLs so a study is being done to get to the bottom of it.

Surely this is simply woman’s physiology is different to men’s isn’t it?
Isn’t this just a symptom of woman playing a sport that evolved for men, similar to how woman are more likely to suffer concussion in woman’s boxing?

Male and female physiology evolved over thousands of years for particular specialisms, while those specialisms have become more mixed in the last couple of hundred years, can thousands of years of evolution be ignored?

Fulham's Beau Parker on second 'traumatic' ACL injury - as lab asks why female footballers are more susceptible

Researchers from Kingston University believe female players are two to seven times more susceptible to ACL ruptures than their male counterparts. With funding from FIFA and assistance from Fulham and WSL champions Chelsea, they are trying to find out why.

news.sky.com

 

[Rita_Poon]

Apparently woman footballers are up 7x more likely to suffer ACLs so a study is being done to get to the bottom of it.

Surely this is simply woman’s physiology is different to men’s isn’t it?
Isn’t this just a symptom of woman playing a sport that evolved for men, similar to how woman are more likely to suffer concussion in woman’s boxing?

Male and female physiology evolved over thousands of years for particular specialisms, while those specialisms have become more mixed in the last couple of hundred years, can thousands of years of evolution be ignored?

Fulham's Beau Parker on second 'traumatic' ACL injury - as lab asks why female footballers are more susceptible

Researchers from Kingston University believe female players are two to seven times more susceptible to ACL ruptures than their male counterparts. With funding from FIFA and assistance from Fulham and WSL champions Chelsea, they are trying to find out why.

news.sky.com

Needs cross examining against athletics and gymnastics. They weight of the boots? Pushing to far with weights in the gym? It's got to boil down to contact and collisions hasn't it. Where do achilles ruptures factor?

 

[frank_da_tank]

Wonder what joey barton thinks

 

[toffee82]

Wonder what joey barton thinks

Think he would struggle to spell ACL.

 

[Lineker]

Think he would struggle to spell ACL.

How do you spell it?

Anyway, the reason for this has been understood for decades at least. Women are more knock-kneed than men, i.e. their legs bend inward at the knee.

I remember reading an article many years ago about how ac milan measured their youth players for this reason, so they could include that in their evaluation.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Could do with parallel analysis with the rugby.

 

[Littlesue]

Be interesting to see in years to come whether the ladies have the dementia link as much as the men

 

[SerenityNigh]

Any links to the actual research?

 

[tommye]

Wonder what joey barton thinks

I don't think he's evolved that far yet

 

[tommye]

Be interesting to see in years to come whether the ladies have the dementia link as much as the men

You lot are defo more mental than us men.
Headcases the lot of you

 

[Harryflashman]

I’m sure I read that is was suggested there was a link between where the footballers were In their menstrual cycle and the prevalence of ACL injuries but I’m not sure it was suggested why.

 

[Kurt.]

Wonder what joey barton thinks

He thinks it’s correlation of foot size and distance from the sink.

 

[Rob17896]

Apparently woman footballers are up 7x more likely to suffer ACLs so a study is being done to get to the bottom of it.

Surely this is simply woman’s physiology is different to men’s isn’t it?
Isn’t this just a symptom of woman playing a sport that evolved for men, similar to how woman are more likely to suffer concussion in woman’s boxing?

Male and female physiology evolved over thousands of years for particular specialisms, while those specialisms have become more mixed in the last couple of hundred years, can thousands of years of evolution be ignored?

Fulham's Beau Parker on second 'traumatic' ACL injury - as lab asks why female footballers are more susceptible

Researchers from Kingston University believe female players are two to seven times more susceptible to ACL ruptures than their male counterparts. With funding from FIFA and assistance from Fulham and WSL champions Chelsea, they are trying to find out why.

news.sky.com

No. This is why men are more likely to stab themselves whilst knitting and break things emptying the dishwasher. Horses for courses or should that be Nags...(Before you start, this is entirely in jest)

 

[Littlesue]

You lot are defo more mental than us men.
Headcases the lot of you

Well I can't deny that but no doubt you men will get the blame lol

 

[NeroCeasar]

This was an interesting theory