Name: 为什么女性冰球的脑震荡率比足球高（Why women’s ice hockey has a higher concussion rate than football）
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In a 2015 NCAA survey, female hockey players reported concussions more often than male

And that's consistent with previous surveys showing women's ice hockey on par with men's

So, compared to other athletes, why do women playing hockey have such a high rate of concussion?

“So I was a full-time student at Harvard playing Division 1 hockey for my school team

and leaving school for different stints."

“...third goal of the year for Josephine Pucci…”

“The morning of a couple gold medal games for the world championships, I was submitting

papers that had to be submitted for school and then would suit up in the USA jersey that evening."

In 2014, Josephine Pucci won a silver medal at the Sochi winter Olympics,

“ I got my concussion ten months before Olympic tryouts and

I remember just, kind of, being on my elbows looking at the bench and...

“...I was so close to, you know, hoping to reach my lifelong goal of hopefully competing

in the Olympics and then suddenly I was in a position where I wasn't sure if I would

be able to attend tryouts because of symptoms.”

After overcoming her injury to play Sochi, Pucci returned to school and decided to end

“...making that phone call...that I'd be stepping away...was one of the hardest

things I'd ever done...but after I called and spoke with them at USA Hockey it just

Compared to college sports like basketball or tennis,

Ice hockey is faster, played on harder surfaces,

Which explains part of why players are getting concussions,

But answering the other part, “why women?”, is less intuitive

and other comparable men's sports, women have a higher rate of concussion.

In fact, all the experts I talked to agreed that

“Females athletes are more knowledgeable about signs and symptoms..”

for me, neck strength is a big component…”

"X differences between the structures of these nerve fibers"

But there are some common factors researchers

point to: “a lot of people forget that this"

Zachary Kerr authored the 2015 NCAA survey and now researches concussions at the University

So, it may not be the fact that men are sustaining less concussions than women.

Maybe women may have a better knowledge of concussions. Perhaps we as men are more

stubborn with our healthcare. Women are more likely to disclose issues in general and we

are just seeing that transferred over to the topic of concussions.

Besides a willingness to report, social bias can still be a factor.

It's also about his or her interpersonal relationships with teammates, with their parents,

So, for men, the cultural, social gender roles are that we can be aggressive,

But, for women, there's always that stereotype of them having to follow that rule of being

“A lot of times that's said in a sort of negative connotation type of way, as if women are

weaker for reporting symptoms and that's something that I just really disagree with and

I feel like, if women are in fact reporting symptoms at a higher rate than men then they

You don't show how tough you are by playing through concussion symptoms.”

Another factor is style of play. Because unlike the men's game, which allows checking, it

When they're children, girls and boys play by the same rules,

but when they turn into teenagers, boys are allowed to start checking.

“That's the biggest difference between men and women, is the checking,

But, when I played boys hockey, I played checking and I don't think I ever had a concussion

By college, men learn to be on the lookout, which doesn't mean female players avoid

contact, but they might focus on speed and skill

instead of anticipating being hit on the ice.

"Every time I had the puck, I was ready to brace myself for a hit.

You were forced to keep your head on a swivel.

Whereas with the women, you're not supposed to be getting hit."

"I don't know if it necessarily falls on not being

'taught' the right way, but I think part of it is definitely not being instilled with this idea of constantly

"Beyond sociocultural factors, researchers are asking whether the explanation could be biological.

There's also the physiological aspects that need to be explored."

So far, scientific answers aren't conclusive, but that shouldn't prevent change in the

"We can make changes now, until the science catches up

in regards to what factors are really contributing

to the vulnerabilities of, you know, getting head injuries.”

“Hitting a runner in the helmet area”

“...undoubtedly going through concussion protocol…”

Only became possible once the league acknowledged data linking football to brain injuries.

For female hockey players in college, there's a similar need for change.

“A lot of times I get the question, 'would you let your kids play ice hockey' and my

answer may beat around the bush to a certain extent but it's usually: Well, I hope by

the time I have kids that we'll know more.”