He doesn’t ask for directions after repeatedly taking wrong turns, and when he’s hurt you’d never know it. The stereotypical ‘tough guy’ or ‘real man’ rarely asks for help or shows signs of weakness, because then he wouldn’t be a guy, right? While many scientists have considered these masculine tendencies to be barriers to health and recovery, a small study of about 50 men suggests the opposite. The man-of-steel mentality, often associated with military men and those in other high-risk occupations, can boost and speed up a guy’s recovery from a serious and/or traumatic injury possibly. ‘It has long been assumed that men are not as concerned and don’t take as good of care of their health,’ said lead study author Glenn Good of the University of Missouri, Columbia, ‘but what we’re seeing here is that the same ideas that led to their injuries may actually encourage their recovery.’ The annual incidence of traumatic brain injuries in the United States is greater than that of all cancers, Good writes in his study, and men account for three-quarters of such injuries. The number will increase if the Iraq war continues, he said. Manly scale Good […]