title: Upper Extremity Injuries in Gymnasts.
abstract: Gymnastics is a unique sport, which loads the wrist and arms as weight-bearing extremities. Because of the load demands on the wrist in particular, stress fractures, physeal injury, and overuse syndromes may be observed. This spectrum of injury has been termed "gymnast's wrist," and incorporates such disorders as wrist capsulitis, ligamentous tears, triangular fibrocartilage complex tears, chondromalacia of the carpus, stress fractures, distal radius physeal arrest, and grip lock injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, MARB4-ORTHO, Farmington, CT 06030-4037, USA.
authors.forename: Megan R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, MARB4-ORTHO, Farmington, CT 06030-4037, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Avery
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Electronic address: jmwolf@uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer Moriatis
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D001134:Arm Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D012090:Cumulative Trauma Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D006173:Gymnastics / Q000293:injuries*; D006801:Humans; D011884:Radius / Q000293:injuries; D016474:Weight-Bearing; D014954:Wrist Injuries / Q000145:classification* / Q000209:etiology
keywords: Carpal instability; Grip lock injury; Gymnast; Scaphoid stress fracture; Triangular fibrocartilage complex; Ulnar abutment; Ulnar positive; Wrist pain