Sentences with phrase «in young female athletes»

ACL tears in young female athletes are far too common, and we see «noncontact» ACL tears in football games, where the ligament ruptures while the player is running.

ACL tears are 4 - 8 times greater in young female athletes engaged in jumping, pivoting, and collision sports such as soccer and basketball.

An unintended consequence of the increase in sports participation by girls and young women over the past thirty years has been an extraordinary rise in the incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in young female athletes.

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Its all - female cheering squad and the singing performances piqued the interest of Olympic fans worldwide, though the athletes, mostly young and inexperienced in international events, won no medals and struggled just to keep up.

First featured in the Institute's long - running PBS documentary, The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, the Six Pillars ® program, is designed to reduce the risk of concussions and long - term injury from repetitive head impacts while minimizing the effects of concussion in young female and male athletes.

At the college level, one in ten young female athletes participating in sports such as soccer, volleyball, and -LSB-...]

In large nutritional surveys that have been done on young athletes ranging from 12 - 18 years old, the carb intake of female athletes tends to be on average 3 - 4 grams per kilogram of body weight lower than male athletes.

With 2.2 pounds in a kilogram, that means a 90 pound young female athlete would be eating around 165 grams of carbohydrate daily, or about 650 calories of carbohydrate.

In the meantime, the young athlete should probably be eating a higher blend of fat before and during exercise, and female young athletes may benefit from lower carbohydrate intake than their male counterparts.

In large nutritional surveys that have been done on young athletes ranging from 12 - 18 years old, the intake of female athletes is on average 3 - 4 grams per kilogram of body weight lower than male athletes.

That is why dogs who are in their growth stage (puppies and young dogs) and those who have increased metabolic demands (such as lactating females and athlete dogs) usually benefit from a diet based on high protein dog food.