Sports-Related Concussion Rates Just as Much a Concern for Females as Males

Today’s sports fan can’t help coming across reports about concussions, whether the focus is a player who has sustained one or a new study about how many are sustained and their potential long-term implications. The stories usually concern the most popular, visible sports, such as football, or a sport’s bigger names, past or present.

But concussions aren’t only a concern in the so-called major sports, and they’re not sustained only by males  Female athletes suffer their share of brain injuries, too — in some sports, at rates higher than males, and in others, at rates that are close.

Concussion rates for girls are on the rise, as they are throughout high school sports in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control’s latest report found that emergency room visits for sports-related traumatic brain injuries in young athletes rose almost 60 percent between 2001 and 2009 to nearly 175,000 annually. For more information, click here to read the full article.