"Conversely, batting led to 18.0% of severe injuries in girls’ softball and 4.2% in boys’ baseball .01) (see Appendix, =(IPR, 4.33; 95% CI, 1.30-14.46; P available in the online version of this article at American Journal of Sports Medicine -- Supplementary material). The most common mechanisms for severe injury were contact with bases (21.3%), contact with another player (14.9%), and contact with the playing surface (11.0%). Being hit by a pitch made up a greater proportion of severe injuries in girls’ softball (12.2%) than boys’ baseball (2.2%) (IPR, 5.48; 95%
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I don't see anything in this data that says girls have a higher incidence of injury when coiling and uncoiling than boys. It does however sound like girls need to work more on running the bases, avoiding running into other players, diving and getting out of the way of wild pitches.
One thing I do find amazing is that somehow it's ok for girls to hop off a 5 inch box, onto their front foot, but it's not ok for a girl to stand on flat ground and coil and uncoil their hips. Learn something new everyday I guess.
.016). =CI, 1.11-27.03; P"
I don't see anything in this data that says girls have a higher incidence of injury when coiling and uncoiling than boys. It does however sound like girls need to work more on running the bases, avoiding running into other players, diving and getting out of the way of wild pitches.
One thing I do find amazing is that somehow it's ok for girls to hop off a 5 inch box, onto their front foot, but it's not ok for a girl to stand on flat ground and coil and uncoil their hips. Learn something new everyday I guess.