Collisions and physical contact with other athletes, or the playing environment, are fundamental aspects of many sports. These can result from intentional high-impact actions (eg, tackling in rugby and throws in judo), and/or incidental actions (e.g., contesting an aerial challenge in netball and blocking a ball in football). With the unprecedented growth and professionalisation of women’s sports that include collision events, the physical and mental demands on female athletes have significantly increased. Female athletes should be empowered and supported to perform contact sports well, with appropriate skill and physical/mental preparation. We question whether the collective sports community (e.g., coaches, strength and conditioning professionals, sports scientists, and sport and exercise medicine practitioners) is adequately preparing female athletes for collisions in sports, or whether a gendered sports environment1 may be holding them back from necessary preparation? The editorial presents contemporary challenges to preparing female athletes to collide safely and skillfully during sport. Injury risk in women’s sport is often discussed, and investigated, solely in the context of isolated physiological and/or biomechanical measures related to sex. The menstrual cycle or quadriceps (Q) angle are frequently highlighted as factors that can contribute to a higher injury incidence in female athletes compared with their male counterparts, while other potential confounding factors are largely neglected.2 The current state of research on the menstrual cycle in the context of injury risks, for example, is conflicting …

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巧妙碰撞：让女运动员为碰撞项目做好准备


与其他运动员的碰撞和身体接触或比赛环境是许多运动的基本方面。这些可能是由故意的高冲击力行为（例如，在橄榄球比赛中铲球和在柔道中投掷）和/或偶然行为（例如，在无板篮球比赛中对抗空中挑战和在足球比赛中阻挡球）引起的。随着包括碰撞项目在内的女子运动的空前增长和专业化，对女运动员的身体和精神要求显着增加。应赋予女运动员权力和支持，以适当的技能和身体/心理准备做好接触性运动。我们质疑集体体育界（例如，教练、力量和体能专业人士、体育科学家以及运动和运动医学从业者）是否为女运动员在运动中的碰撞做好了充分的准备，或者性别化的运动环境1是否可能阻碍她们进行必要的准备？社论提出了当代挑战，让女运动员在运动中安全、熟练地碰撞。女子运动中的受伤风险通常仅在与性别相关的孤立生理和/或生物力学措施的背景下进行讨论和调查。与男性运动员相比，月经周期或股四头肌 （Q） 角经常被强调为可能导致女性运动员受伤发生率更高的因素，而其他潜在的混杂因素在很大程度上被忽视了。例如，在受伤风险的背景下对月经周期的研究现状是相互矛盾的......