Key result
Injuries to collegiate women athletes were found to be essentially sport-related rather than sex-related, with greater dissimilarities between different women's sports than between men's and women's.
Observational
Yes
Injuries to women athletes are essentially sport-related rather than sex-related, highlighting the need for sport-specific injury prevention strategies.
Caution against sex-specific injury protocols; leaves open prospective validation in contemporary cohorts.
The purpose of this article was to provide a preliminary overview of the injury experiences among collegiate women athletes which were reported to the National Athletic Injury/Illness Reporting System (NAIRS) during its first 3 operational years (1975 to 1978). More dissimilarities in injury patterns were observed between women's sports than between comparable men and women's sports. The results thereby are interpreted that injuries to women athletes are essentially sport-related, not sex-related. Further investigative reports on women athletic injuries should be delimited to respective sports and over a period of time. Attention should be given to the patterns of injury within a sport, including shifts in patterns, so that practicable preventive measures can be perceived, implemented, and subsequently evaluated.
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Clarke et al. (1980) conducted an observational in Athletic injuries. Collegiate sports participation vs. Comparable men's sports was evaluated on Injury patterns. Injuries to collegiate women athletes were found to be essentially sport-related rather than sex-related, with greater dissimilarities between different women's sports than between men's and women's.
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