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Patient sex influences the incidence, clinical presentation, and treatment outcomes of common sports injuries, highlighting the need to understand these differences to optimize musculoskeletal care.
Understanding sex-based differences in the incidence, clinical presentation, and treatment outcomes of sports injuries is important to optimize musculoskeletal care.
Sex differences in sports injuries should not yet alter standard care; this Level 5 review leaves open the need for prospective validation.
The patient's sex plays an important role in mediating the risk for, and experience of, disease. Injuries of the musculoskeletal system are no exception to this phenomenon. Increasing evidence shows that the incidence, clinical presentation, and treatment outcomes for male and female patients with common sports injuries may vary widely. Stress fracture, which is associated with the female athlete triad, is a sports injury with known sex-based differences. Other common sports-related injuries may also have distinct sex-based differences. Understanding these differences is important to optimize each patient's musculoskeletal care.
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Carter et al. (2018) conducted a review in Common sports injuries. Patient sex was evaluated. Patient sex influences the incidence, clinical presentation, and treatment outcomes of common sports injuries, highlighting the need to understand these differences to optimize musculoskeletal care.
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