Sports injuries: overhead elbow
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Overhead sports injuries are groupsa group of pathologies seen in sport activities with over head throwing or strokes such as tennis, volleyball, baseball, javelin throwing, etc. It has been tremendous increase in the number of participants in these sport activities, worldwide. Tremendous forces are generated over the elbow due to valgus and hyper extension. These excessive forces can be divided into:
- tensile forces: over the medial elbow forces can damage ulnar collateral ligament, flexor-pronator mass, or ulnar nerve
- shear forces: in posterior compartment forces can damage articular cartilages
- compressive forces: on lateral aspect of the joint can cause radiocapitular contusion, fracture, or in skeletally immature patient osteochondral dessicans
Injuries, most commonly seen in overhead sports, can be listed as follows:
Ulnarulnar collateral ligament injuriesValgusvalgus extension overload syndrome- posterior olecranon impingement
Ulnarulnar neuritisFlexorflexor-Pronator muscle mass injuriesMedialmedial epicondyle apophysitis-
Olecranonolecranon stressfracturefracturess Osteochondritisosteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum
-<p><strong>Overhead sports injuries </strong>are groups of pathologies seen in sport activities with over head throwing or strokes such as tennis, volleyball, baseball, javelin throwing, etc. It has been tremendous increase in the number of participants in these sport activities, worldwide. Tremendous forces are generated over the elbow due to valgus and hyper extension. These excessive forces can be divided into:</p><ol>-<li>tensile forces : over the medial elbow forces can damage ulnar collateral ligament, flexor-pronator mass, or ulnar nerve</li>- +<p><strong>Overhead sports injuries </strong>are a group of pathologies seen in sport activities with over head throwing or strokes such as tennis, volleyball, baseball, javelin throwing, etc. It has been tremendous increase in the number of participants in these sport activities, worldwide. Tremendous forces are generated over the elbow due to valgus and hyper extension. These excessive forces can be divided into:</p><ol>
- +<li>tensile forces: over the medial elbow forces can damage ulnar collateral ligament, flexor-pronator mass, or ulnar nerve</li>
-<li><a href="/articles/ulnar-collateral-ligament-injuries">Ulnar collateral ligament injuries</a></li>-<li><a href="/articles/valgus-extension-overload-syndrome">Valgus extension overload syndrome</a></li>-<li><a title="Posteromedial elbow impingement" href="/articles/posteromedial-elbow-impingement">Posterior olecranon impingement</a></li>-<li><a href="/articles/ulnar-neuritis">Ulnar neuritis</a></li>-<li><a href="/articles/flexor-pronator-muscle-mass-injuries">Flexor-Pronator muscle mass injuries</a></li>-<li><a href="/articles/medial-epicondyle-apophysitis">Medial epicondyle apophysitis</a></li>-<li>-<a href="/articles/olecranon-stress-fracture">Olecranon stress fracture</a>s</li>-<li><a href="/articles/osteochondritis-dissecans-of-the-elbow">Osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum</a></li>- +<li><a href="/articles/ulnar-collateral-ligament-injuries">ulnar collateral ligament injuries</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/valgus-extension-overload-syndrome">valgus extension overload syndrome</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/posteromedial-elbow-impingement">posterior olecranon impingement</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/ulnar-neuritis">ulnar neuritis</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/flexor-pronator-muscle-mass-injuries">flexor-Pronator muscle mass injuries</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/medial-epicondyle-apophysitis">medial epicondyle apophysitis</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/olecranon-stress-fracture">olecranon stress fractures</a></li>
- +<li><a href="/articles/osteochondritis-dissecans-of-the-elbow">osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum</a></li>
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