Warrior girls
Subtitle: protecting our daughters against the injury epidemic in women's sports
By: Michael Sokolove
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade papberback ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780743297561
Subjects: Sports for girls; Sports for women; Sports injuries; Prevention; Sports; Safety measures
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Amy; title: Warrior girls; title: Inconvenient truths; title: "We can bring it"; title: Proving grounds; title: Amy : eighteen minutes; title: In the OR; title: A medical detective story; title: Among the plebes; title: The ACL witch; title: One-trick ponies; title: "Are you asking me why I'm doing something I know is bad for kids?"; title: "I'm a stressed person"; title: Head to toe; title: Amy : "I miss it so much"; title: Afterword : Prescriptives.