The Pickleball Injury Everyone Overlooks Is the Floor
Ask most pickleball players what they worry about and you will hear about shoulders, knees and Achilles tendons.
Reasonable concerns. They are also not what sends people to the emergency room. A ten year analysis of emergency department data found that falls were the most common injury mechanism overall, accounting for 65.5 percent of pickleball injuries. And a separate study examining pickleball fractures found that falls were the mechanism behind 92 percent of them.