My daughter and I both read an article in one of the mailers that Lake Hospitals sends out discussing female athletes and knee injuries. That is a very reasonable concern.
My wife is an RN in OBGYN and the doctor she works for helps me when ever we need additional information.
Another of our parents is a nurse practitioner in neurology at Children's Hospital and I have been allowed to attend sessions on training with her child with their sports med trainer.
Santa Monica Sports Med has a program called PEP...just google it and you can down load the information as it is free as it was done by the CDC and NCAA and has reduced ACL issue in basketball and Zoccer by 41 percent.
In my opinion the differences in the male to female body makes teaching the female especially an important issue as they are predisposed to have more issues as to shoulders, ACL and ankle issues.
The glutes do not fire in a female upon landing however it is automatic in the males.
When we do clinics we try to offer up the education as to the differences and why we do what we do.
Last week while doing a lesson one of our girls was complaining about her knees hurting and i looked at the dad and ask permission to ask her if she was having her period. He said go ahead. She was and no one ever told her that her knees would be sore or that her shoulder was sore also.
I explained the laxity issue and that it was normal. I ask the dad if mom played sports in college? No! Then unless another female who had explained this to her how would she ever know what it should feel like?
When we did a clinic a few years ago with Jennie Finch, Crystl Bustos, Topping and Berg there was an ex trainer from the Reds that gave a speech and told the audience this was the first time he had ever heard anyone speak about the female body differences especially hitting instructors talking about balance and ACL and shoulder issues.
It is on the net....Female ACL issues.
