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Women Have Tendons… and Tendinopathy: Gender Bias is a "Gender Void" in Sports Medicine with a Lack of Women Data on Patellar Tendinopathy-A Systematic Review.
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- Maximal Lower Limb Strength in Patellar Tendinopathy: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis.Journal of athletic training · 2024Pooled it
- Tendinopathy: sex bias starts from the preclinical development of tendon treatments. A systematic review.Biology of sex differences · 2022Pooled it
- Monitoring Patellar Tendon Stiffness in Relation to Load, Function and Pain.Sports medicine international open · 2026Article
- Estrogen and Progesterone Exhibit Distinct Yet Coordinated Roles in the Regulation of Tendon Extracellular Matrix Remodeling.Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society · 2026Article
- Patellar tendon repair restores extensor mechanism function with a low complication rate: A systematic review.Journal of orthopaedics · 2025Review
- Estrogen and progesterone exhibit distinct yet coordinated roles in the regulation of tendon extracellular matrix remodeling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Myometric Assessment of Achilles Tendon and Soleus Muscle Stiffness before and after a Standardized Exercise Test in Elite Female Volleyball and Handball Athletes-A Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Intra-articular injections in sport-active patients with degenerative cartilage lesions or osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2023Review
- Under-representation of women is alive and well in sport and exercise medicine: what it looks like and what we can do about it.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionPatellar tendinopathy is one of the most common musculoskeletal problems associated with sport. While commonly perceived as a predominantly male problem, recent epidemiological studies revealed that it also affects a large number of sport-active women. The aim of this systematic review was to understand how the available treatments apply to women affected by patellar tendinopathy.
methodsWe analysed the available literature with a systematic review on three databases (PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science) on February 2021, retrieving a total of 136 studies published from 1983.
resultsThe overall scientific field offers an astonishingly low number of data on treatment results referring to only 78 women (2%) in the entire literature. Only 5% of the retrieved articles considered focusing only or mostly on men to be a limitation.
conclusionsWomen represent only a minority of patients studied for this topic. The few documented cases are further fragmented by being related to different treatments, thus basically offering no solid evidence for results and limitations of any therapeutic approach in women. This literature analysis showed a greater gender gap than what is recognized in science and general medicine; it showed a gender blindness in sports medicine when investigating a common problem like patellar tendinopathy.
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