Citation

Wolf MR, Avery D, Wolf JM. Hand Clin. 2017; 33(1): 187-197.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: jmwolf@uchicago.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.hcl.2016.08.010

PMID

27886834

Abstract

Gymnastics is a unique sport, which loads the wrist and arms as weight-bearing extremities. Because of the load demands on the wrist in particular, stress fractures, physeal injury, and overuse syndromes may be observed. This spectrum of injury has been termed "gymnast's wrist," and incorporates such disorders as wrist capsulitis, ligamentous tears, triangular fibrocartilage complex tears, chondromalacia of the carpus, stress fractures, distal radius physeal arrest, and grip lock injury.

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Language: en