Three squash racquets and one badminton player presented with pain in the base of the hypothenar eminence, due to minor degrees of subluxation of the pisiform bone. Two of them also showed chondromalacia of the articular cartilage of the pisotriquetral joint. All four patients were relieved by excision of the pisiform bone and had returned to their normal daily and sporting activities within th...

Isolated injuries to the teres major muscle occur in competitive sporting activities such as baseball pitching, hockey and tennis. We report a similar event of a physically fit man sustaining an isolated teres major rupture while waterskiing. Non-operative management was chosen, with pain resolution and no appreciable functional limitations at follow up. Because teres major muscle injury was su...

CONTEXT Functional performance testing of athletes can determine physical limitations that may affect sporting activities. Optimal functional performance testing simulates the athlete's activity. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A Medline search from 1960 to 2012 was implemented with the keywords functional testing, functional impairment testing, and functional performance testing in the English language...

Chronic exertional anterior compartment syndrome is debilitating disease of the lower limb. Limited symptomology characterises the clinical picture at rest, pain during sporting activities, tumefaction, and contractures of the limb as well impotency by the pain of the entire forefoot and hypoesthesia. Usually, the most affected patients are athletes. We analyse a case of chronic post-traumatic ...

Matching methods are used to conduct a causal analysis of the impact of participation in sporting activities while at university on subsequent earnings once graduated and in employment. The analysis employs an innovative longitudinal dataset, Futuretrack, which follows UK students from upper secondary education through higher education and on to the labour market. The results indicate a positiv...

Tendo Achilles ruptures are generally traumatic in origin and while bilateral tendo Achilles ruptures are a rare occurrence, most of them are associated with risk factors or pre-existing disease and generally involve trauma or sporting activities. Most of the cases of bilateral rupture are generally treated operatively. A spontaneous onset case of bilateral tendo achilles rupture is reported in...

Introduction Serious abdominal trauma as a result of sporting activities is an uncommon problem. However, because of its relative infrequency, injuries may sometimes go undiagnosed. Significant blunt abdominal injuries do not present in the same way as major orthopaedic injuries, usually because these injuries are, for the most part, internal and concealed. Thankfully penetrating injuries are q...

The condition of the periphery of the retinal field of the human eye is of considerable significance, it is suggested, to those participating in various sporting activities. Its boundaries shrink and expand depending upon the physiological conditions imposed both upon the eye and upon the organism as a whole. Consequently its message to the brain may be impaired under stress with resulting da...