ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2022
Dealing with menstrual cycle in sport: stop finding excuses to exclude women from research.
Article in European journal of applied physiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Time to Reset: The Interplay Between Circadian Rhythms and Redox Homeostasis in Skeletal Muscle Ageing and Systemic Health.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Exercise performance at different phases of the menstrual cycle: measurements, differences, and mechanisms - a narrative review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Review
- Most modifiable risk factors for hamstring muscle injury in women's elite football are extrinsic and associated with the club, the team, and the coaching staff and not the players themselves: the UEFA Women's Elite Club Injury Study.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Low adoption in women's professional football: teams that used the Nordic Hamstring Exercise in the team training had fewer match hamstring injuries.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
The current literature is mostly male-based, limiting evidence-based recommendations for training individualization for female athletes. Recently, studies have relied on recent findings showing a potential effect of the menstrual cycle to exclude female athletes from their samples. We highlight that the arguments usually put forward to this action are not acceptable. Our discussion aims to elucidate that female physiological parameter can be confounding variables in the same way than other parameters (temperature, nutrition, fatigue, etc.). Those are usually well handled in most studies. This is important to bridge the current sex data gap and promote research on female athletes. Specially, as we approach the next Olympic Games, were, for the first time, there will be full gender parity in terms of athlete numbers at the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
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