An ongoing collection of sports science literature on the female athlete.

Runners of The Bay: Episode 11: Dr. Emily Kraus Answers Your Questions About Stress Fractures, Hormones, and Contraceptives on Apple Podcasts
Episode 11: Dr. Emily Kraus Answers Your Questions About Stress Fractures, Hormones, and Contraceptives – Jul 18, 2020

Health for Performance
Optimising health for performance is essential for athletes and dancers. Low energy availability in RED-S compromises both health and perforamnce

Female Athletes, Hormonal Contraception, & Bone Health
I still see young female athletes in my clinic who think it’s normal to lose their period during heavy bouts of training. Fired up, I made this infographic to e

The Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition Blog
The Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, represents key medical, nursing, athletic, and sports medicine groups, as well

Shades of Gray: Sex, Gender, and Fairness in Sport – Barbell Medicine
The role of gender in sports dates to the 1890’s and the birth of the modern Olympic movement. When asked about the inclusion of women in the Olympics, the foun

Podcast: Dr. Emily Kraus: Are Your Nutritional Habits Why You Are Injured? -R4R 070
Pelvic, hip, and sacral injuries in runners can stop you from doing what you love for weeks or even months, and they are becoming more common. What can we do…

Fuel for Function
Fueling for Function means emphasizing food as a tool that allows you to have enough energy to pursue exercise and sport goals, while maintaining a healthy body

A battle cry for change in the female running world: physicians are listening | BJSM blog – social media’s leading SEM voice
Let’s start to discuss how we can reframe women’s running culture from the lens of the medical professional. By Emily Kraus, MD @emilykrausMD It was the day aft

Dr. Emily Kraus: Bone Health and Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-s) in the Endurance Athlete Population (Podcast)
“There’s still this notion that, in female athletes, that it’s ok to lose their period during high intensity training in the middle of a season, cross country or track and
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