What girls and women in sports need to unlock their potential | Kate Ackerman
TED Health
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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
As a sports scientist, athlete and director of the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children's Hospital, Kate Ackerman understands that women athletes need more than pretty sports bras or new sneakers to achieve peak performance -- they need true investment committed to their health and well-being. Ackerman advocates for a long overdue sports medical system that's dedicated to the study and development of women athletes, supporting lifelong success on and off the field
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:13.0 | This is Ted Health, I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter. |
| 0:16.0 | For decades, women and girls have been fighting for equal participation in recognition in sports. |
| 0:22.0 | We've seen small wins recently, but there's still a long way to go. |
| 0:26.0 | So what's holding us back? |
| 0:28.0 | In her TEDx Boston talk, sports medicine physician, endocrinologist and researcher, Kate Ackerman, |
| 0:34.0 | believes she has the answer. |
| 0:36.0 | Drawing from her personal experience, she lays out the obstacles and emphasizes the urgent need for change. |
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| 1:14.0 | I want you all to imagine a place where female athletes could come, |
| 1:19.0 | and they could get interdisciplinary medical care. |
| 1:23.0 | And they could get the answers to their questions, so that they could achieve peak performance throughout their lifespan. |
| 1:30.0 | Where they could get educated about the physical changes that happened during puberty, |
| 1:35.0 | where they could learn how to use their menstrual cycle to their performance advantage, |
| 1:40.0 | where they could get sex-specific injury prevention advice, |
| 1:44.0 | where they could get nutritional advice, mental health support, |
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