Elbow Trauma in the Athlete. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • In caring for athletes, the physician must be able to accurately diagnose and appropriately treat all forms of elbow injuries. Traumatic injuries to the elbow are common in the athlete. The late cocking phase of throwing produces tremendous valgus stress on the elbow that can lead to medial epicondyle avulsion fractures in adolescents or rupture of the medial ulnar collateral ligament in skeletally mature overhead throwers, such as baseball pitchers and javelin throwers. Common traumatic elbow injuries suffered by athletes, surgical techniques for operative repair of these injuries, as well as postoperative rehabilitation protocols and the clinical results are presented.

publication date

  • August 25, 2015

Research

keywords

  • Athletic Injuries
  • Collateral Ligaments
  • Elbow
  • Elbow Injuries
  • Fractures, Bone
  • Tendon Injuries

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84945465234

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.hcl.2015.07.002

PubMed ID

  • 26498554

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 31

issue

  • 4