[leemailll]

I remember years ago reading on nytimes that girls played soccer more likely to torn ACL, and in the piece several said theirs popped more than once

[u32480932048]

I remember our wrestling coach constantly comparing the sport to womens' sports with higher injury rates.

"No need to be careful - this isn't [cheerleading|womens' soccer|volleyball] where you could actually get hurt"

[jdeibele]

That's a fun anecdote. I referee high school and youth wrestling and there are several coaches who are paraplegic or quadriplegic because of neck or spinal injuries they got wrestling. I assume there are other injured people who didn't want to have anything to do with the sport after their injury.

[BurningFrog]

The male body is optimized for running.

The female body design is a compromise between that and surviving childbirth.

[exhilaration]

I remember that article from the NY Times Magazine, it was from 2008. Here's a link for anyone that's interested: https://nyti.ms/3ScsVm5

It's long but a good read, particularly if you've got daughters in sports.

[jonahbenton]

It is an epidemic in professional women's soccer. At any given time a third of the top players in the world are sidelined with an ACL.

[SirMaster]

So what is the problem, they are pushing things to hard and too far?

[PaulHoule]

It is more likely to happen when they are menstruating so they can get some protection by tracking their periods so that they avoid hard training on dangerous days.

[verteu]

Despite the downvotes, I believe this is true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164356/

[bonton89]

Huh, I wonder what the mechanism is there. I wouldn't expect periodic hormonal changes to weaken a ligament.

[DrThunder]

They're also more likely to get concussions from things like headers. The female body is just not as adept at physical activity as the male one. It's almost like its main focus is on creating babies.