Is Gender Affecting Women's Injury?

Many sports players or physically fit people, male or female, all wonder if gender can increase your chance of getting injured. There are studies to prove that gender does affect your risk of getting injured and others that say it is just unlucky to get injured. An example would be one male soccer player sliding and being fine while a female soccer may do the same slide and end up injured. Is it luck or does gender really have something to do with injuries? Some experts are going as far as to see if Gender affects how you react when you sustain an injury.

According to Robert Shmerling Women are more than 6 times as likely to suffer an injury to their ACL than men. While Shmerling says that woman are 6 times as likely to suffer an ACL injury than men Anna Kessel thinks they are 9 times as likely to sustain this injury (Kessel). Shmerling also states that it is common for women to sustain other injuries such as, ankle sprains, shoulder problems, knee injuries, stress fractures, and
In Ayanna Franklin’s post on TuckerCenter she states, “When examining research concerning two particular features of this model (social support and emotional response) it is clear that gender does matter!” (TuckerCenter). She shows this by saying that woman will usually tell somebody about their injury and get support from others, while men usually don’t tell anyone about it and try to help themselves. She also states that, “Studies also show that both males and females experience similar feelings of anger and frustration; however, males tend to express irritability and are less likely to verbally express emotions, while females are more apt to verbally express emotions.” (TuckerCenter). While males and females both get angry and frustrated by injuries studies show that men tend to take their anger out physically while women tend to do it with