ABSTRACT
As the number of girls and women participating in sports grows, the amount of information available about female athletes continues to increase. However, as with any other relatively new area of medicine, the initial information being gathered points out how much more there is to learn. While many of the benets (physical, psychological, and social) and risks (injury) of sports and exercise are the same for women and men, some issues are specic to women. This chapter addresses issues for adolescent, reproductive-aged, and postmenopausal women (Table 65.1).
