The location of ACL research in a broader agenda of injury prevention helped distance it from a narrow focus on gender difference, providing context for increasingly nuanced conceptualizations of gender.
Nuanced gender views may refine ACL injury prevention; extends consensus statements beyond binary risk differences.
This article investigates constructions of gender and difference in biomedical research on anterior cruciate ligament injuries. This injury is of interest because evidence shows a higher risk among females in some sports and there is extensive research on this topic. The analysis examined consensus statements from 6 anterior cruciate ligament research retreats spanning 11 years. The initial mission of the retreats was to examine factors related to a possible gender bias in incidence. Over time there was increasing emphasis on explaining the mechanisms of the injury and injury prevention. Conceptualizations of gender were multifaceted and as research evolved showed a tendency to move away from essentialist and categorical constructions. The discussion suggests that the location of this research in a broader agenda of injury prevention helped to distance it from a narrow focus on gender difference and provided the context for increasingly nuanced conceptualizations of gender.
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Nancy Théberge (2015) conducted a review in Anterior cruciate ligament injuries. Analysis of consensus statements from 6 anterior cruciate ligament research retreats over 11 years showed a shift away from essentialist constructions of gender toward nuanced conceptualizations.
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