Firouzbakht Peter K, Bagdady Kazimir, Gupta Rohun, Lu Stephen M, Chen Kevin
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, MO, USA.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA.
Hand (N Y). 2024 Mar 17:15589447241238371. doi: 10.1177/15589447241238371.
Pickleball popularity has significantly increased in the United States. Wrist, hand, and finger injuries are commonly seen among pickleball players and are on the rise.
The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database was queried from 2013 to 2022 tennis- and pickleball-related injuries in the United States. Data were filtered to include wrist, hand, and finger injuries only.
There were a total of 12 021 estimated pickleball injuries between 2013 and 2022, most commonly in white women greater than 55 years old. The most common mechanism of injury (90.5%) was a fall. The number of injuries increased by 765.6% between 2013 and 2022. The growth in the number of pickleball-related injuries was found to be statistically significant ( < .05), whereas the growth for tennis-related injuries was found to be not statistically different from 0. There was a statistical difference between the growth of the number of pickleball injuries per year and the number of tennis injuries. The wrist was the most common location of injury (70.0%) compared with the hand (10.5%) and fingers (19.5%). The most common injury diagnosis was fracture (60.3%). Overall, the most common injury was wrist fracture (50.0%).
Hand surgeons should be aware of the increasing prevalence of pickleball-related injuries as an alternative mechanism of injury, particularly among the elderly.
匹克球在美国的受欢迎程度显著提高。腕部、手部和手指受伤在匹克球运动员中很常见，且呈上升趋势。
查询了2013年至2022年美国国家电子伤害监测系统数据库中与网球和匹克球相关的伤害。数据经过筛选，仅包括腕部、手部和手指受伤情况。
2013年至2022年期间，估计共有12021起匹克球相关伤害，最常见于55岁以上的白人女性。最常见的受伤机制（90.5%）是摔倒。2013年至2022年期间，受伤数量增加了765.6%。发现匹克球相关伤害数量的增长具有统计学意义（<0.05），而网球相关伤害数量的增长与0没有统计学差异。每年匹克球受伤数量的增长与网球受伤数量之间存在统计学差异。与手部（10.5%）和手指（19.5%）相比，腕部是最常见的受伤部位（70.0%）。最常见的损伤诊断是骨折（60.3%）。总体而言，最常见的损伤是腕部骨折（50.0%）。
手外科医生应意识到匹克球相关伤害作为一种受伤的替代机制的患病率在增加，尤其是在老年人中。
