School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Res Sports Med. 2024 Sep-Oct;32(5):810-819. doi: 10.1080/15438627.2023.2271604. Epub 2023 Oct 19.
This narrative review scrutinizes research exploring sex-based differences in experiences of sport-related concussion. The article argues that the limitations of epidemiological studies identifying the greater incidence and severity of concussion among females require that these findings are read with caution. It secondly argues that the dominant explanations for these data are based on and extend historical tendencies to "other" female participation in sport and construct male experiences as the "norm". Finally, the article critiques policy recommendations related to these research findings, arguing that they are likely to embed rather than challenge sex inequality in sport, and that they are both impractical and unethical. While this commentary builds on a broader body of work advocating greater sex/gender equality in sports science research, the prominence of social concerns about concussions in sport makes the broader implications of the focus on sex and sport-related concussion particularly problematic and thus in need of redress.
本文回顾了有关性别差异与运动相关性脑震荡的研究。文章认为，流行病学研究确定女性脑震荡发生率和严重程度更高的局限性要求谨慎解读这些发现。其次，文章认为，对这些数据的主流解释是基于并扩展了将女性参与体育运动视为“异类”的历史趋势，并将男性的经历构建为“常态”。最后，文章对这些研究结果相关的政策建议提出批评，认为这些建议很可能会使体育运动中的性别不平等进一步恶化，而不是挑战这种不平等，而且这些建议既不切实际，也不道德。虽然这篇评论是基于更广泛的倡导在运动科学研究中实现更大的性别平等的工作，但社会对运动性脑震荡的关注，使得关注性别与运动相关性脑震荡的更广泛影响成为一个特别棘手的问题，因此需要加以解决。
