Special Concerns of the Female Athletes

Books

Women in sport
B L Drinkwater (ed)
Blackwell Science, 2000

Women and Sport
M Costa, S Guthrie (eds)
Human Kinetics 1994

Women, sport and performance: A physiological perspective (2nd ed.)
C L Wells
Champaign, II.: Human Kinetics 1991

Reviews

Bass M, Turner L, Hunt S:
Counseling female athletes: application of the stages of change model to avoid disordered eating, amenorrhoea, and osteoporosis
Psychological Reports 88: 1153-60, 2001

Keywords

female athletics, gender sex difference, endocrine system, menopause, amenorrhoea, osteoporosis, disordered eating, pregnancy


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