📌 TL;DR: Estudio sobre lesiones deportivas de tenis y otros juegos de raqueta en niños y adolescentes.
🔬 Puntos clave:
- Racket sports popular entre jóvenes.
- Lesiones más comunes en piernas inferiores (rodillas, tobillos).
- Lesiones superiores también frecuentes (hombros).
- Estudios limitados sobre lesiones deportivas en este grupo etario.
- Tenis causa mayor número de lesiones y lesiones graves.
🎯 Aplicación clínica para LATAM:
En Panamá, la práctica de juegos de raqueta como el tenis es creciente. Este estudio sugiere que los fisioterapeutas y médicos deportivos deben estar alerta a las lesiones musculoesqueléticas en jóvenes practicantes de estos deportes, especialmente en piernas inferiores.
⚠ Limitaciones:
La mayoría de los estudios se centraron en jugadores de tenis, limitando la generalización al resto de juegos de raqueta.
Objectives
The popularity of racket sports has been increasing globally in recent years, with tennis remaining the most played sport worldwide and pickleball gaining popularity in the United States. While many studies have addressed injuries associated with racket sports in adult athletes, minimal data are available focusing on young athletes in pediatric and adolescent populations. This study aimed to review the various injuries associated with racket sports in pediatric and adolescent populations.
Methods
Using the PubMed database, we searched for studies completed in the last 10 years that addressed injuries due to racket sports in age groups up to 18 years old, as well as adult studies that included pediatric and adolescent populations.
Results
In total, 60 studies met our inclusion criteria, of which 18 were descriptive studies. The most common injuries reported in the studies were lower extremity injuries, specifically knee and ankle injury. Upper extremity injuries were the next most common, specifically shoulder injuries. Most of the studies reported multiple musculoskeletal injuries as opposed to just one. Tennis was found to be the racket sport that caused the highest number of injuries, as well as the most severe injuries.
Conclusions
There are few studies on musculoskeletal injuries from racket sports in pediatric and adolescent populations. This review found that tennis had the highest number of studies, and different types and severities of injuries were well-described. Lower extremity overuse injuries were the most common, followed by upper extremity injuries. Eye injuries were less common but serious. Injuries cause pain, time loss in school, and increased healthcare burden, so there is public health relevance to conducting more racket sport studies. There is a significant amount of physical and mental growth occurring during childhood and adolescence; therefore, more kinematic studies and systematic reviews should be conducted pertaining to racket sports, which will hopefully help with injury prevention in these age groups.
Cómo citar:
Shrestha M, Usmani A, Karlov S, Harris A, Patel DR. (2026).
Racket Sports-Related Injuries in Youth Athletes: A Narrative Review.. International journal of environmental research and public health.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23010135 ↗ PMID: 41595928 ↗ Acceso al paper: Ver completo ↗
