Golf Sports Medicine

Symptoms:
Pain, swelling, and tenderness at the wrist near the base of the thumb. Pain typically occurs at the left wrist at the top of the backswing.

Treatments:
Among the possible treatments are: Rest, medication, thumb spica splinting, therapy, cortisone, surgery

Do:
Avoid excessive cocking of the left wrist at the top of the backswing.

Don’t:
Release the hands prematurely at the top of the backswing (casting maneuver). Read the rest of this entry »

Symptoms:
Numbness and tingling of the fingers (particularly at night), hand weakness and clumsiness

Treatments:
Among the possible treatments are: Rest, medication, splinting, surgery.

Do:
• Make sure that club handle grips are replaced as needed, or consider larger/softer grips.
• Reduce grip pressure on the club handle Read the rest of this entry »

Shoulder pain is relatively common in Mexico (2, 5, 8). Among the various anatomic
sites and will shoulder the fourth most common and represents Ca.10% of
injuries (Table 1). The injury rate is significantly lower than in so-called “overhead
athlete “like swimmers (66%), vollybollspelare (44%) and javelin thrower (29%) (5).
Previous studies have shown that work with your arms in a student led mode of ‘overhead athlete’  Read the rest of this entry »

Most severe back injury that occur during a game of golf, usually held a couple of days. Here are the most common injury during the course:

Stretching muscles: usually occurs during a sharp attack on the ball, or a sudden drop during the game.

Jamming muscle or tendon: usually happens when a very long game of golf or in case of accidents if not playing golf.

Damage to the disc: it may happen when the wrong arm swings a stick (note that this is often the case already have that, who had been the defeat of the disc, sharpening golf) Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve reviewed quite a different intense physical complications to which we can expose the practice of golf, but there is one that is characteristic of this sport and is called golfer’s elbow.

Its technical name is epicondylitis, and it is a form of tendinitis that attacks in the elbow area, which is manifested with inflammation of muscle attachments on the sides of the elbow. Read the rest of this entry »