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Which of the following sports are female athletes at greater risk for developing the female athlete triad?
Female athletes, especially those who play sports that look for thinness — such as dancing, gymnastics, cheerleading, figure skating, distance running, and rowing — are more likely to have the triad. Other things that make someone more likely to have the triad include: focusing on one sport at a young age.
Why do female athletes get osteoporosis?
In female athletes, a higher incidence of osteoporosis is due to a decreased rate of bone accretion in youth, often as a result of hormonal deficiency and/or excessive exercise.
What is Triad athlete syndrome?
The female athlete triad (the triad) is an interrelationship of menstrual dysfunction, low energy availability (with or without an eating disorder), and decreased bone mineral density; it is relatively common among young women participating in sports.
What is red s syndrome?
Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) is a syndrome in which disordered eating (or low energy availability), amenorrhoea/oligomenorrhoea (in women), and decreased bone mineral density (osteoporosis and osteopenia) are present.
What does it mean to be a female athlete?
It means being in shape to play your sport, willingness to train hard, wanting to grow with your team and coaches to be the best you can be.
What impact may the female athlete triad have on athletic performance?
Women with the triad also have decreased immune function90,94 and impaired skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism. Many athletes with low bone density and/or menstrual irregularity suffer from stress fractures.
Why does a girl spot?
About 3 percent of women experience spotting related to ovulation. Ovulation spotting is light bleeding that occurs around the time in your menstrual cycle when your ovary releases an egg. For many women, this can be anywhere between 11 days and 21 days after the first day of your last period.
Does sports affect your period?
Exercising too much can cause missed menstrual periods or make your periods stop entirely. Irregular or missed periods are more common in athletes and other women who train hard regularly.
Which female athletes are most at risk for developing one of the parts of the Triad?
Females in any sport can develop one or more components of the triad. At greatest risk are those in sports that reward being thin for appearance (such as figure skating or gymnastics) or improved performance (such as distance running or rowing).