{"product_id":"warrior-girls-protecting-our-daughters-against-the-injury-epidemic-in-womens-sports","title":"Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmy Steadman was destined to become one of the great womens soccer players of her generation. \"The best of the best \" Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead  by age twenty  Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait  like an elderly woman  and found it painful to get out of bed in the morning.  Warrior Girls exposes the downside of the womens sports revolution that has evolved since Title IX: an injury epidemic that is easily ignored because we worry that it will threaten our daughters hard-won opportunities on the field. From teenage girls playing local soccer  basketball  lacrosse  volleyball  and other sports to women competing at the elite level  female athletes are suffering serious injuries at alarming rates.  The numbers are frightening and irrefutable. Young female athletes tear their ACLs  the stabilizing ligament in the knee  at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. Womens collegiate soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as college football players. From head to toe  female athletes suffer higher rates of injury  and many of them play through constant pain.  Michael Sokolove gives us the most up-to-date research on girls and sports injuries. He takes us into the homes and hearts of female athletes  into operating theaters where orthopedic surgeons reconstruct shredded knees  and onto the practice field of famed University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance.  Exhaustively researched and strongly argued  Warrior Girls is an urgent wake-up call for parents and coaches. Sokolove connects the culture of youth sports -- the demands for girls to specialize in a single sport by age ten or younger  and to play it year-round -- directly to the injury epidemic. Devoted to the ideal of team  and deeply bonded with teammates  these tough girls dont want to leave the field even when confronted with serious injury and chronic pain.  Warrior Girls shows how girls can train better and smarter to decrease their risks. It makes clear that parents must come together and demand changes to a sports culture that manufactures injuries. Well-documented  opinionated  and controversial  Warrior Girls shows that all girls can safeguard themselves on the field without sacrificing their hard-won right to be there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985142640693,"sku":"ByrdShop_0743297555","price":26.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780743297554.jpg?v=1770848959","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/warrior-girls-protecting-our-daughters-against-the-injury-epidemic-in-womens-sports","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}