How does gender play a role?
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In the United States, about 3.8 million people suffer a concussion from a sport related head injury each year, counting both men and women. Although both men and women experience concussions and concussion symptoms, gender does play a role in lots of aspects. Men are more likely to suffer a concussion after participating in football, bicycling, and basketball, while women have a higher chance of suffering a concussion after horseback riding, playground activities, and bicycling Even when doing the same activities, though, women are still at a two times greater risk than men are (Pierce).
After sustaining the injury, women experience more symptoms, have more difficult recoveries, and take longer to recover. Female athletes suffering a concussion are also 1.7 times more cognitively impaired than men, making things like visual memory tasks and reaction time harder for women. Some researchers believe that the reason for these differences has something to do with whether the injuries are reported, estrogen levels, or brain structure (Pierce).
Both female and male high school athletes have a fairly high chance of suffering from a concussion. But, studies have proven that females are more likely to suffer a concussion than males. For example, in basketball alone, only 8.8% of male injuries are caused by concussions, but for females, concussions are the cause of 25.6% of injuries. Studies performed by both Wake Forest University and Northwestern University analyzed data from four male sports, and four female sports on the occurrence of a concussion. On the list of the percentages of concussions out of all injuries, women’s soccer, basketball, and volleyball were ranked higher than football. Female soccer players are also sometimes observed as “playing harder than the men,” all without any kind of protective gear (Bogage).
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