Giulio Cocco, Vincenzo Ricci, Antonio Corvino, Michele Abate, Adele Vaccaro, Carlotta Bernabei, Vito Cantisani, Gianfranco Vallone, Corrado Caiazzo, Massimo Caulo, Andrea Delli Pizzi
Padel is a racket sport, combining high-frequency and low-intensity athletic gestures, that has been gaining growing scientific interest in recent years. Musculoskeletal injuries are very common among padel players with an incidence rate of 3 per 1000 h of training and 8 per 1000 matches. To the best of our knowledge, a comprehensive collection describing the most common sonographic findings in padel players with musculoskeletal injuries is lacking in the pertinent literature. In this sense, starting from the biomechanical features of padel-specific gestures we have reported the ultrasonographic patterns of most frequent injuries involving the upper limb, the trunk, and the lower limb...
April 5, 2024: Journal of Ultrasound