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492: How women should exercise as they age | Award-winning sports journalist Christine Yu

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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The Differences Between Girls and Women's Knees

Researchers are starting to understand that if we step back from that, we need to also consider the wider circumstance in which girls and women are living and operating. So there's a study that was done looking at dancers like soccer players and basketball players,. They're leaping, they're jumping, they're doing these dynamic movements, landing on one foot. Yet there isn't that same disparity between boys and girls in ACL tears, in dance. It begs the question, is it because those dancers are learning from an early age, how to use their bodies?

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