Study also finds girls typically take two days longer to recoverGirls less likely to be substituted over potential concussionTeenage girls face almost double the risk of concussion playing
Football compared with teenage boys – and typically take two days longer to recover from these injuries, a landmark study has found.
Worryingly the research, which compared data from 40,000 female high school players in Michigan with that from a similar number of male footballers, also found girls were 1.5 times less likely to be substituted if they suffered a potential concussion.