title: Wrist injuries: a comparison between high- and low-impact sports.
abstract: Wrist injuries can be categorized as those caused by high- or low-impact sports. High-impact sports include auto racing, motorcross or bicycle racing, in-line skating, gymnastics, football, soccer, ice skating, snowboarding, and alpine skiing. Low-impact sports include tennis, track and field, and golf. High-impact injuries of the wrist range from displaced fractures and dislocations to ligamentous and acute tendinous tears. Low-impact sports typically result in nondisplaced or occult fractures, contusions, stress reaction, ligamentous sprain, tendinopathy, tenosynovitis, or tendon subluxation. Imaging modalities for detection of injuries include radiography, computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance CT arthrography, and skeletal scintigraphy.
authors.affiliation: University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL 32827, USA. Laura.bancroft.md@flhosp.org
authors.forename: Laura W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Bancroft
mesh_terms: D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000175:diagnosis; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000293:injuries; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*