Study into female footballers & ACL injuries.

Bedfordblue said:
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?

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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.
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I think part of this is the design of the shoes.

Obviously the designs were mainly focused on selling to men as the larger market. I wonder how much work went into fitting the shoes to a female physiology. Their centres of gravity and where weight falls when they run surely is all different and has to be accommodated.

It reminds of those shoes Cahill had that were identified as the main culprit behind a load of metatarsal breaks.
 
Generally men are bigger and stronger adapted for hunting. Hunting isn't a game or sport, its life or death. The ones that were weak got killed and didn't pass on genes, so only the stronger ones in a pack did it.

Generally women are more nimble with smaller hands for fine work - we learned to make clothes to keep us warm as we adapted to cooler environments, and gathering berries etc.

But some feminists like to ignore facts evolution and science- so we are all apparently the same and women are just as capable as men at everything as shown by the fact that modern wonen regularly beat up men in Hollywood movies and are always in charge.
 
chrismpw said:
Generally men are bigger and stronger adapted for hunting. Hunting isn't a game or sport, its life or death. The ones that were weak got killed and didn't pass on genes, so only the stronger ones in a pack did it.

Generally women are more nimble with smaller hands for fine work - we learned to make clothes to keep us warm as we adapted to cooler environments, and gathering berries etc.

But some feminists like to ignore facts evolution and science- so we are all apparently the same and women are just as capable as men at everything as shown by the fact that modern wonen regularly beat up men in Hollywood movies and are always in charge.
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Ah, there you are.
 
chrismpw said:
Generally men are bigger and stronger adapted for hunting. Hunting isn't a game or sport, its life or death. The ones that were weak got killed and didn't pass on genes, so only the stronger ones in a pack did it.

Generally women are more nimble with smaller hands for fine work - we learned to make clothes to keep us warm as we adapted to cooler environments, and gathering berries etc.

But some feminists like to ignore facts evolution and science- so we are all apparently the same and women are just as capable as men at everything as shown by the fact that modern women regularly beat up men in Hollywood movies and are always in charge.
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christ chris.

some of the best tig welders I've worked alongside have been ladies btw.
 
DualityNSNO said:
How, given they have soft as pillow hands and are unused to any kind of manual labour?!
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smaller hands, tighter spaces, smaller welds, more dextrous. There's 6 foot filter designs that need sealing from the inside, I'd need putting in a blender and pouring in, but some 4" lass from wherever was tailor made. Loved pipe stuff in far reached climes. Bar at the end of the day, so much fun.
 
chrismpw said:
Generally men are bigger and stronger adapted for hunting. Hunting isn't a game or sport, its life or death. The ones that were weak got killed and didn't pass on genes, so only the stronger ones in a pack did it.

Generally women are more nimble with smaller hands for fine work - we learned to make clothes to keep us warm as we adapted to cooler environments, and gathering berries etc.

But some feminists like to ignore facts evolution and science- so we are all apparently the same and women are just as capable as men at everything as shown by the fact that modern wonen regularly beat up men in Hollywood movies and are always in charge.
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Rita_Poon said:
christ chris.

some of the best tig welders I've worked alongside have been ladies btw.
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Why shouldnt they be? Nimble work. Potentially probably better than most men. I fear your view is being cluttered by mass-think - or you think my comment is anti-women ... which it isn't.
 
DualityNSNO said:
At this point it's someone could just start a thread, name it "women", write just 1 word in it - "women" - and 5 min in Chris will be there to tell you how inferior they are about something.

Bizarre hustle, but respectable in a way?
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Nope- you are misinterpreting my sentiment. Men are inferior in some ways, women in others. Together we've made a winning evolutionary combination so far. What lets both genders down are the stupid, who just regurgitate other people's ideas read from magazines, without fully understanding nuance ... i think they're becoming more common too (both genders).
 
Efcjake said:
I think part of this is the design of the shoes.

Obviously the designs were mainly focused on selling to men as the larger market. I wonder how much work went into fitting the shoes to a female physiology. Their centres of gravity and where weight falls when they run surely is all different and has to be accommodated.

It reminds of those shoes Cahill had that were identified as the main culprit behind a load of metatarsal breaks.
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Was chatting to a female climber, 'pinking and shrinking' they call it. Companies essentially make smaller sports equipment in feminine colours to market to woman that are still ergonomically designed for men rather than women
 

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