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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

中國年輕女運動選手月經問題之分析探討

Abstract

In order to investigate the problem of menstrual dysfunction among young female athletes in the Chinese population.152 female athletes participating in the 1988 Taiwan Area Athletic Meet (TAAM) were surveyed via questionnaire. Among the athletes who were younger than 18 years, those who were premenarchetrained had delayed menarche (13.7±1.1 years), which was statistically significant, when compared with the postmenarche-trained group (13.0±1.4 years)and the college students in general population(12.8±1.0 years) (p＜0.05 and p＜0.0001,respectively).For the problem of irregular menstrual pattern,athletes who were trained after menarche were studied. It was found that the percentage of athletes with regular menstrual cycle declined from 78% to 32% after training, those with irregular menstrual pattern retained the same irregularity. In this survey,68 athletes experienced worse performance during menstrual cycle,29 of whom had tried to avoid menstrual period during the important athletic competitions.Those who visited a gynecologist or general practitioner had a greater success rate in adjusting menstrual cycle,whereas those with the help of a Chinese herbalist or by themselves had a greater chance of failure.

Language

English

First Page

99

Last Page

106

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