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Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in the Adolescent Athlete
Mia Smucny1, Joel Kolmodin, Paul Saluan
1Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
Abstract:
With the recent increase in youth sports participation and single-sport youth athletes over the past 30 years, there has been an increase in the number of acute and overuse sports injuries in this population. This review focuses on overuse and traumatic injuries of the shoulder and elbow in young athletes. In particular we discuss little league shoulder, glenohumeral internal rotation deficit, glenohumeral instability, superior labrum anterior posterior lesions, Little League elbow, Panner disease, osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum, posteromedial elbow impingement, and posterolateral rotatory instability of the elbow. There is a significant emphasis on the evaluation and management of upper extremity injury in the overhead thrower.
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