Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Collisions and physical contact with other athletes, or the playing environment, are fundamental aspects of many sports. These can result from intentional high-impact actions (e.g. tackling in rugby, throws in judo), and/or incidental actions (e.g. contesting an aerial challenge in netball, blocking a ball in football). With the unprecedented growth and professionalisation of women's sports that include collision events, the physical and mental demands on female athletes have significantly increased. Female athletes should be empowered and supported to perform contact sports well, with appropriate skill and physical/mental preparation. We question whether the collective sports community (e.g., coaches, strength and conditioning professionals, sports scientists, and sport and exercise medicine practitioners) is adequately preparing female athletes for collisions in sports, or whether a gendered sports environment (1) may be holding them back from necessary preparation? The editorial presents contempor
Authors: Oehler, Elisabeth, Saynor, Zoe, Elliot, Kirsty
Institution: Dublin City University
Language: English
Subfield: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7017906783
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