Cricket Injuries

Cricket‘s only similarity to baseball and softball, is that a bat (with a flat side) and ball are used to achieve “runs” (points) against the opposing team. It has complex rules, and each team has 11 players. The game has 2 main phases: one team bats while the other team fields and then this is reversed. The aim of the batting team is to score as many runs as possible and the goal of fielding team is to prevent the batting team from scoring runs. The field of play is a large elliptical grass field with a peripheral boundary.

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Skiing Safely

Winter sports are some of the most unique and dangerous activities that one can partake in; even professionals have a hard time maintaining the proper degree of “fitness” to allow for these sporting ventures. What am I talking about?

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Sports Injury Prevention in Children

Imagine this. You are sitting at home one evening and you hear the phone ring. When you pick it up, you hear the following: “Your son John has badly injured his ankle playing basketball. We are thinking of sending him to the emergency room. Please get here as soon as you can.” This situation is something that many parents fear. Was there anything John could have done to prevent this?

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How To Manage A Head Injury

Contact sports can be fun and rewarding.  But, if your child participates in a contact sport, he or she does run the risk of suffering a mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion. In fact, 20 percent of all high school football players suffer brain injuries each season!

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What is the best way to slide in baseball and softball?

Baseball and softball are two of the most popular sports in America and in the world. While baseball is known as “America’s national pastime,” softball is actually the top recreational sport in this country (with over 40 million participants yearly). Although both are considered non-contact sports, there is one physically jarring aspect of the game that accounts for a significant number of injuries: sliding into a base.

Strains and Sprains

Injuries will happen...there is no escaping it.
Injuries will cause pain...there is no escaping it
Injuries will lead to debility...there is no escaping it.
But what should one do, when injured?

Not unlike their adult counterparts, injuries in kids are of many varieties and degrees.
While many are due to direct blows, such as falling from a bicycle and others are due to indirect causes such as a knee-twisting injury while running on a soccer field, the most common one I see today is due to overuse.

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My Aching Shoulder

Similar to elbow injuries, the most common mechanism of injury to the shoulder is overuse. Specifically, it is most often injured when the upper limb ranges excessively in an “over the head” motion. 

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What is Causing that Hip Pain?

Identifying the etiology for hip pain in a child can be tricky. The reason, hip pathology often presents as knee pain.

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What is a Stress Fracture?

A significant extreme of an overuse injury is a stress fracture. This too is a normal reaction to an abnormal stress placed upon a bone. While it is classified as a fracture, it is not the typical, broken bone fracture many of us envision. Rather, it is a fracture of a portion of a bone and there is no displacement of the bone. 

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Elbow Injuries

Injuries of the elbow are not rare in throwing sports. In particular, injuries to the inner aspect (the side that your pinky finger is on) of the elbow are rather common in young throwers.

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Back and Neck Pain  

While back pain will likely afflict all of us at some time during our lives, it is not as universal in the younger population. Fortunately, most low back and neck pain that kids complain about is muscular and likely to resolve in one to two weeks. 

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Oh My Aching Knee

In youth sports, the incidence and prevalence of knee injuries continues to rise. In fact, in parallel to adults, knee pain may soon become the #1 reason young patients visit my office

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