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Women and Concussions: Share your experience with ESPN The Mag

By Peter Keating

Friday, March 6, 2009

Talk about concussions in sports, and most people think of football or maybe boxing. But it turns out that in sports that both men and women play, women actually sustain more concussions than men. There are a lot of theories about why. Girls get less education about concussions than boys do; men and women have different hormones protecting their brains; and doctors and trainers tend to treat injuries to male athletes more seriously than they do injuries to females. But until recently, there ha ...

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