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Dr. Wayne M. Fichter Jr.
There’s roughly two million sports related concussions a year in the U.S. There is little known about the specific effects of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI), such as concussions on women, mainly because the majority of published studies on the subject have focused more on men.
Studies suggest that female athletes are not only more susceptible to concussion than males, they also experience or report a higher number and severity of symptoms as well as a longer duration of recovery than male athletes. But there are many other causes of traumatic brain injury, including falls, motor vehicle accidents, and blows to the head. Although the range of symptoms reported after a concussion are the same between the two; such as headaches, mental fatigue, concentration difficulties and mood swings, the research on length of recovery is mixed, but overall supports that women take longer to recover than men.
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