{"id":11524,"date":"2025-03-24T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:00:52","slug":"how-the-gendered-conditions-of-sport-matter-for-women-athletes-injury-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2025\/03\/24\/how-the-gendered-conditions-of-sport-matter-for-women-athletes-injury-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"How the gendered conditions of sport matter for women athletes\u2019 injury risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Stephanie E. Coen, Victoria Downie, Lucy Follett, Steve McCaig, Joanne L. Parsons<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11526\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic1.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Why is this study important?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women and girls remain at elevated risk of some sports injuries compared to their male counterparts, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, concussion, and ankle sprain. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research into injury disparities has traditionally focused on sex-based biological explanations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (e.g., menstrual cycle, anatomy, biomechanics).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A gendered environmental approach widens the lens to also consider how the gendered conditions of society and sport contribute to women\u2019s injury risk (Parsons et al., 2021). These social, cultural, and material factors are a largely untapped opportunity for supporting athlete health, but the whole notion of \u2018gendered environments\u2019 can seem\u2026well\u2026rather nebulous. So, where do we start? How do we address them in practice?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this study, we drew on the perspectives of elite women athletes to identify features of gendered environments that mattered in their sports careers and understand how these connected to injury (Coen et al., 2024).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>How did the study go about this?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We carried out in-depth interviews with 20 women athletes from 11 different sports who recently retired from the UK high performance system. Data were analysed using qualitative coding to identify themes, together with \u2018poetic transcription\u2019 to create research poems that described each theme in athletes\u2019 own words.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11528\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic2-640x640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>What did the study find?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We found five themes connecting gendered environments to sports injury:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b><i> Stereotypes trivialise injury: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gender stereotypes embedded in the sport system contribute to minimising and mischaracterising athletes\u2019 injury concerns, creating barriers to early diagnosis and treatment. (e.g., \u201cThey didn\u2019t say it\u2019s in your head, but essentially that was the diagnosis.\u201d)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><i> Physiology is all or nothing: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women\u2019s health and injury concerns could at once be reduced to reproductive physiology (e.g., menstrual cycle) while at the same time women\u2019s physiology could be erased, leading to gaps in meeting athletes\u2019 needs. (e.g., \u201cGo on the pill so we don&#8217;t have to sort that.\u201d)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><i> The \u2018ideal\u2019 female athlete: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Social norms that value idealised behavioural and physical attributes in women athletes can result in missed opportunities to identify and prevent injuries. (e.g., \u201cAs a woman, you had to be soft, kind, and caring.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><i> In\/visible inequities: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gender disparities in opportunities and resources in sport continue to position women like \u201csecond class citizens,\u201d increasing individual burden to stay injury-free (e.g., \u201cThe women always have to work around the men.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><i> Uneven power dynamics: <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Women\u2019s injury experiences are deeply entangled with the gendered organisational hierarchies of sport, reflected in how information is communicated and whose expertise is considered authoritative when it comes to injury. (e.g., \u201cThe younger male coaches just absolutely hated a more experienced female athlete questioning their knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11529\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-2048x1075.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Figure1_Blog-640x336.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>What are the key take-home points? What can you do?<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sport staff and athletes can use these themes as a framework to help label gendered experiences that may otherwise be hard to articulate in a tangible way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To assist in this task, we translated our research into a publicly available online resource. Designed as a multimedia exhibition, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morethanmedals.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More Than Medals: Gendered Environments of Sports Injury Uncovered<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">invites visitors into women<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> athletes experiences through a combination of original poetry constructed entirely of direct athlete quotes, voiced by actors, and illustrated through original artwork. Each virtual exhibition room is dedicated to a specific challenge and concludes with questions prompting reflection for turning insight into action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11527\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic3-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/Infographic3.png 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>What can you do with More Than Medals?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Reflect on your own practice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014is there anything you might reconsider about the usual way of doing things in light of what you learned?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use the exhibition to <\/span><b>start a conversation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with colleagues or athletes about gendered environments in your sport context.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Share amongst your team<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to raise awareness about gendered environments.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Tell others one insight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you took away from the exhibition to encourage them to learn more.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morethanmedals.co.uk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11525\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-768x289.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-1536x577.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-2048x769.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/03\/MTM_Exhibition_Image_Blog-640x240.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>REFERENCES<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coen, S. E., Downie, D., Follett, L., McCaig, S., &amp; Parsons, J. L. (2024). Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: Insights from retired athletes in the UK high performance context. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British Journal of Sports Medicine.<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">58,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> 1505-1517. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bjsports-2024-108717\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">doi: 10.1136\/bjsports-2024-108717<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parsons, J., Coen, S. E., &amp; Bekker, S. (2021). Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Toward a gendered environmental approach. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">984-990. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/55\/17\/984\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/55\/17\/984<\/span><\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Stephanie E. Coen, Victoria Downie, Lucy Follett, Steve McCaig, Joanne L. Parsons Why is this study important? Women and girls remain at elevated risk of some sports injuries compared to their male counterparts, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, concussion, and ankle sprain. 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