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Sports Injuries

Wrist, Elbow, Shoulder: The Arm Takes More Punishment Than You Think

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Pickleball looks like a lower body sport.

The movement, the footwork, the lunges, the scrambling. That is where players assume the wear and tear accumulates.

The emergency department data says otherwise.

A study examining pickleball related upper extremity injuries presenting to US emergency departments between 2015 and 2024 found that these injuries have risen sharply over the past decade, with wrist fractures comprising the majority of cases.

The Pickleball Injury Everyone Overlooks Is the Floor

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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.