The Female Athlete: Preventing Sports Injuries in Women

Non-operative sports medicine physician Gloria Cohen, MD and orthopedic surgeon Katherine Vadasdi, MD of the ONS Foundation for Clinical Research and Education in Greenwich will present a Free seminar on women and sports injuries.

Dr. Cohen and Dr. Vadasdi will discuss why some injuries are unique to women and the role female biomechanics and nutritional needs play in preventing injuries. They will talk about injury danger signs and symptoms, overuse injuries and the risk factors of different sports as well as ACL injuries, and the "female athlete triad," a syndrome that includes the loss of periods, disordered eating and osteoporosis.