Little leaguers’ elbow in an adolescent cricket player

The overuse injury of medial epicondyle, the little league elbow, has been described in baseball pitchers and cricket catchers. We describe here a similar injury in a young cricket trainee, a pace bowler, for the first time.

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Published inEuropean journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 97 - 99
Main Authors Nag, Hiralal, Murugappan, Karthik S., Chandran, P. S. M., Mohan, M. R., Das, R. B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Paris Springer-Verlag 01.02.2009
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Case Report
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Surgical Orthopedics
Traumatic Surgery
Cricket
Overuse injury
Little leaguer elbow
Adolescents
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Summary:The overuse injury of medial epicondyle, the little league elbow, has been described in baseball pitchers and cricket catchers. We describe here a similar injury in a young cricket trainee, a pace bowler, for the first time.
ISSN:1633-8065
1432-1068
DOI:10.1007/s00590-008-0383-9