Athletic Hand and Wrist Injuries Return to Play

Athletic Injuries of the Wrist and Hand

Athletic injuries to the elbow, forearm, wrist and hand.

LTHOUGH competitive sports produce more A major injuries to the lower extremity, a sufficient number of injuries to the upper extremity do occur to make a thorough review of their recognition and management worthwhiIe. Furthermore, since most of these injuries involve one of the major joints, such as the elbow or the wrist, inadequate treatment wiI1 often Iead to permanent disability. A number ...

Groin Injuries (Athletic Pubalgia) and Return to Play

CONTEXT Groin pain is a common entity in athletes involved in sports that require acute cutting, pivoting, or kicking such as soccer and ice hockey. Athletic pubalgia is increasingly recognized as a common cause of chronic groin and adductor pain in athletes. It is considered an overuse injury predisposing to disruption of the rectus tendon insertion to the pubis and weakness of the posterior i...

Pediatric hand and wrist injuries.

In the last 40 years, childhood hand and wrist injuries have become progressively more common as children have become heavier and more active in high impact sports. The majority of children with such injuries do well, but treatment is not always straightforward. Distal radius fractures, scaphoid fractures, metacarpal and phalangeal fractures, nailbed injuries, and amputations are among the pedi...

89 - Hand and Wrist Injuries

When assessing hand injuries, the history should focus on the mechanism of the injury, hand position at the time of the insult, perceived resultant functional impairment, and the time elapsed since the injury. Some mechanisms yield classic injury patterns, such as the jersey finger and mallet finger. Other injury patterns are known for their poor outcomes, such as fight bites or high-pressure i...