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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-100743297555

ISBN-139780743297554

eBay Product ID (ePID)63859872

Product Key Features

Book TitleWarrior Girls : Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen's Health, Sports Medicine, Parenting / General, Gender Studies, General, Health & Safety

Publication Year2008

GenreFamily & Relationships, Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical

AuthorMichael Sokolove

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-012176

Reviews" Warrior Girls brings alive the reality that our daughters are suffering from an epidemic of devastating sports injuries that can be prevented with exercise programs." - Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., "Warrior Girlsbrings alive the reality that our daughters are suffering from an epidemic of devastating sports injuries that can be prevented with exercise programs."- Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., ""Warrior Girls" brings alive the reality that our daughters are suffering from an epidemic of devastating sports injuries that can be prevented with exercise programs."- Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., " Warrior Girls brings alive the reality that our daughters are suffering from an epidemic of devastating sports injuries that can be prevented with exercise programs."- Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal796.083

Table Of ContentPrologue1 Chapter 1 Amy Chapter 2 Warrior Girls Chapter 3 Inconvenient Truths Chapter 4 "We Can Bring It" Chapter 5 Proving Grounds Chapter 6 Amy: Eighteen Minutes Chapter 7 In the OR Chapter 8 A Medical Detective Story Chapter 9 Among the Plebes Chapter 10 The ACL Witch Chapter 11 One-Trick Ponies Chapter 12 "Are You Asking Me Why I'm Doing Something I Know Is Bad for Kids?" Chapter 13 "I'm a Stressed Person" Chapter 14 Head to Toe Chapter 15 Amy: "I Miss It So Much" Afterword: Prescriptives A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index

SynopsisAmy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait, like an elderly woman, and found it painful to get out of bed in the morning. Warrior Girls exposes the downside of the women's sports revolution that has evolved since Title IX: an injury epidemic that is easily ignored because we worry that it will threaten our daughters' hard-won opportunities on the field. From teenage girls playing local soccer, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and other sports to women competing at the elite level, female athletes are suffering serious injuries at alarming rates. The numbers are frightening and irrefutable. Young female athletes tear their ACLs, the stabilizing ligament in the knee, at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. Women's collegiate soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as college football players. From head to toe, female athletes suffer higher rates of injury, and many of them play through constant pain. Michael Sokolove gives us the most up-to-date research on girls and sports injuries. He takes us into the homes and hearts of female athletes, into operating theaters where orthopedic surgeons reconstruct shredded knees, and onto the practice field of famed University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance. Exhaustively researched and strongly argued, Warrior Girls is an urgent wake-up call for parents and coaches. Sokolove connects the culture of youth sports -- the demands for girls to specialize in a single sport by age ten or younger, and to play it year-round -- directly to the injury epidemic. Devoted to the ideal of team, and deeply bonded with teammates, these tough girls don't want to leave the field even when confronted with serious injury and chronic pain. Warrior Girls shows how girls can train better and smarter to decrease their risks. It makes clear that parents must come together and demand changes to a sports culture that manufactures injuries. Well-documented, opinionated, and controversial, Warrior Girls shows that all girls can safeguard themselves on the field without sacrificing their hard-won right to be there., Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," "Parade" magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait, like an elderly woman, and found it painful to get out of bed in the morning. "Warrior Girls" exposes the downside of the women's sports revolution that has evolved since Title IX: an injury epidemic that is easily ignored because we worry that it will threaten our daughters' hard-won opportunities on the field. From teenage girls playing local soccer, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and other sports to women competing at the elite level, female athletes are suffering serious injuries at alarming rates. The numbers are frightening and irrefutable. Young female athletes tear their ACLs, the stabilizing ligament in the knee, at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. Women's collegiate soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as college football players. From head to toe, female athletes suffer higher rates of injury, and many of them play through constant pain. Michael Sokolove gives us the most up-to-date research on girls and sports injuries. He takes us into the homes and hearts of female athletes, into operating theaters where orthopedic surgeons reconstruct shredded knees, and onto the practice field of famed University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance. Exhaustively researched and strongly argued, "Warrior Girls" is an urgent wake-up call for parents andcoaches. Sokolove connects the culture of youth sports -- the demands for girls to specialize in a single sport by age ten or younger, and to play it year-round -- directly to the injury epidemic. Devoted to the ideal of team, and deeply bonded with teammates, these tough girls don't want to leave the field even when confronted with serious injury and chronic pain. "Warrior Girls" shows how girls can train better and smarter to decrease their risks. It makes clear that parents must come together and demand changes to a sports culture that manufactures injuries. Well-documented, opinionated, and controversial, "Warrior Girls" shows that all girls can safeguard themselves on the field without sacrificing their hard-won right to be there., Are girls competing in sports with an intensity their bodies can't withstand? Sokolove takes an urgent look at the dark secret of women's sports, in this rigorously researched expos of the epidemic of crippling injuries suffered by young girls in the name of sport.

LC Classification NumberGV709.S64 2008