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Women Recover Muscle Strength More Slowly Saturday, September 27, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Women are four times more likely than men to experience a broken forearm and require a cast (immobilization). To examine whether the effects of casting were similar between the sexes, researchers examined immobilized volunteers for a period of three weeks. They determined that while men were able to regain 99% of their strength within a week of removing the cast, women’s strength was still 30% lower when compared to before the cast was applied. (source: sciencedaily.com)
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