Incidence of musculoskeletal sport injuries in a sample of male and female recreational paddle-tennis players

Performance Outcome Measures in Padel: A Scoping Review

“…Regarding injury locations, lower limbs seemed to be the most common location among padel players [ 10 , 68 ] with a close relationship to muscle overloading ( p < 0.001) and recurrent injuries ( p < 0.05) [ 11 ]. Other frequent injury locations, such as the lower back, knee, shoulder, hamstrings, calf, and plantar fascia have been reported [ 11 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 68 ].…”

“…Castillo-Lozano et al [ 32 , 33 , 34 ] observed that age, body mass index, and laterality ( p < 0.05) were injury incidence determinants which could explain between 7.5% and 68.5% of injuries. These results were similar to those found by Garcia-Fernandez et al [ 11 ] who reported a higher injury rate in relation to age ( p < 0.05) and IMC increase ( p < 0.01).…”

“…The main interest of injury-focused reports was the incidence of injury, its severity, the locations, and the possible causes, giving a quite complete overview of the sport epidemiology. Lower limbs—plantar fascia, the calf, knee, and hamstrings, the lower back, and the shoulder are the most common injury locations [ 11 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 68 ] and an injury-prevention intervention should be taken into account to avoid them and achieve player consistencies among the season. Finally, the only two biomechanics-focused studies included reports that had completely different approaches.…”

Management of Tennis elbow in racket sports – a literature review

“…Since paddletennis is a relatively new racket sport that has gained a lot of interest, it might attract players without previous experience of the loading of racket sports and gripping activity as holding on to a racket. Therefore, a new injury pattern, including a possible high frequency of elbow pain, could be expected in the future (Castillo-Lozano & Casuso-Holgado, 2017). This is an important field for further research.…”

“…In badminton 2.4%-13% of all injuries have been reported to be elbow injuries (Caine et al, 2010), and the prevalence of elbow injuries in tennis is 1.3%-14.1% with no difference between men and women (Abrams et al, 2012). Tennis elbow (TE) has been reported to be the most common injury among recreational paddle-tennis players (Castillo-Lozano & Casuso-Holgado 2017). There are few data on elbow injuries in squash, a study on professional squash players showed that only about 1% of all injuries were elbow injuries (Horsley, O'Donnell, & Leeder, 2020).…”