- Odyssey’s Sports Advisory Board (“SAB”) was formed in 2021 to enhance public awareness of traumatic brain injuries and concussion
- The board’s members – Abby Wambach, Kurt Warner, and Brett Favre – have had storied careers in their respective sports and have expressed hope that scientists will examine their brains after their death to advance their understanding of head trauma
- Abby Wambach has committed her brain to research, hoping her efforts will bridge the gender gap in understanding sports concussions in women
- Sports concussions are worse for women, with female athletes being more likely to develop a sports-related concussion than their male counterparts
Despite indications that sports concussions affect men and women differently, with female athletes being more likely to sustain a concussion than their male counterparts, the consensus still is that a large gender gap exists that inordinately impedes the clear understanding of concussions in women. What the few studies on concussions in female athletes – relative to the number of studies on men in sports – however, show is that sports concussions are veritably worse for women.
Female athletes, studies indicate, experience more symptoms than their male counterparts and take longer to recover. The weight of the issue is further compounded by the fact that female athletes are 1.9 times – and sometimes as much as three times, according to some studies – more likely to develop a…
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