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...sports: hulking football players flying across the field, crushing their heads into one another's helmets, lucky if they can count their fingers by the end of the game. But brain pain doesn't affect just boys. Ask Christin Anson, a high school junior from Lancaster, Ohio. During a soccer game her freshman year, an opposing player kicked her square in the back of the head. She shook it off and even finished the game. "I just thought I'd have a headache for a day or two," Anson, now 17, says. Instead, she started showing symptoms of a concussion...
...hazardous consequences. Boys who play football are still more likely to suffer concussions than any other athletes, but in some sports played by both sexes, girls actually run a higher risk of getting hurt. According to a new study in the Journal of Athletic Training, U.S. female high school soccer athletes suffered almost 40% more concussions than males did (overall, the study estimates that female players suffer some 29,000 concussions annually, compared with 21,000 for boys). In high school basketball, female concussions were nearly 240% higher (overall, girls got 13,000 concussions playing basketball, boys 4,000). Female...
...young female athletes protect themselves? Many sports-medicine pros recommend that girls work with coaches to strengthen their neck muscles. Another solution, especially for soccer players, is to wear protective headgear. Since its inception in 2002, a San Diego-based company, Full 90, has sold some 200,000 soft, padded headbands to soccer players. A recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that the band reduced concussion risk among a group of Canadian adolescent soccer players. But some experts worry that the bands may spur more reckless on-field behavior. "I fear that kids will put these...
Indeed, even if better equipment can help reduce the likelihood of head injuries, female concussion rates are unlikely to fall significantly until girls alter their playing styles. Olivia Kirby, a high school sophomore from Seattle, suffered her second concussion while playing soccer this fall. A goalkeeper, she promises to tone down her aggression. "Don't be the goalie who takes out another person just 'because,'" she says. "Be the goalie who takes out the person strategically." In other words, use your head. Or else you might damage it for good...
...believe that many shoppers' maxed-out credit cards and a murky economic outlook won't cause many Americans to have a leaner Christmas this year. Gwen DiBello, 40, still made her annual trek to Saks Fifth Avenue at the upscale Dallas Galleria on the day after Thanksgiving, but the soccer mom, 40, admitted, "I'm spending less this season because money is a little tighter than in years past." Meanwhile at the Aventura Mall in suburban Miami, Raquel Babani, a 28-year-old teacher from Hallandale, said, "It's the same shopping, but I'm getting good sales...