Women are prone to injury and various injuries depending on the day of the menstrual cycle, this conclusion was made by British specialists.

One of the UK hospitals conducted a study that involved 1,000 osteopathic physicians and 17 women with a regular menstrual cycle.

The reason for such a connection in their opinion is the relationship between fluctuations in the level of hormones and the state of the musculoskeletal system, or more precisely, with the density of ligaments and muscles.

Both tissues are more prone to injury and damage in the middle of the cycle, and the ligaments become most vulnerable at the end of the cycle.

In the middle of the cycle, the female hormone estrogen, which gives strength to the muscles, drops sharply and this can manifest as a weakness of the muscular and connective tissues.

By the end of the cycle, the level of another hormone, relaxin, also rises.

This hormone helps the cervix open easier to allow menstruation to occur and the blood does not linger. But the reverse side of this process is the general weakness of connective tissue and ligaments.

As the study showed, trauma such as sprain is characteristic of both periods.

In addition, the level of hormones directly correlated with the mobility of the joints, therefore, depending on the phase of the cycle, women were more likely to suffer dislocations and subluxations of the joints.

Women who took oral contraceptives and did not experience a sharp drop in estrogen levels were less prone to sprains and sprains.

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