Warrior girls : protecting our daughters against the injury epidemic in women's sports / Michael Sokolove.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.Edition: 1st hardcover edDescription: viii, 308 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780743297554
  • 0743297555
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 709 .S64 2008
Contents:
Amy -- Warrior girls -- Inconvenient truths -- "We can bring it" -- Proving grounds -- Amy : eighteen minutes -- In the OR -- A medical detective story -- Among the plebes -- The ACL witch -- One-trick ponies -- "Are you asking me why I'm doing something I know is bad for kids?" -- "I'm a stressed person" -- Head to toe -- Amy : "I miss it so much" -- Afterword : Prescriptives.
Summary: An examination of the relationship between gender and athletics traces a rise in devastating injuries suffered by young women athletes in recent decades, citing a lack of coach awareness and dangerous disallowances for gender differences.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.

Amy -- Warrior girls -- Inconvenient truths -- "We can bring it" -- Proving grounds -- Amy : eighteen minutes -- In the OR -- A medical detective story -- Among the plebes -- The ACL witch -- One-trick ponies -- "Are you asking me why I'm doing something I know is bad for kids?" -- "I'm a stressed person" -- Head to toe -- Amy : "I miss it so much" -- Afterword : Prescriptives.

An examination of the relationship between gender and athletics traces a rise in devastating injuries suffered by young women athletes in recent decades, citing a lack of coach awareness and dangerous disallowances for gender differences.

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