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.
Not exact matches
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.