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Elite Athlete's Hand and Wrist Injury, An Issue of Hand Clinics - E-Book

Elite Athlete's Hand and Wrist Injury, An Issue of Hand Clinics - E-Book

Michelle Carlson

(2012)

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Abstract

This issue will cover many common questions and issues that doctors in sports medicine are confronted with: when to treat injuries, tips on whether treatment can be surgical or nonsurgical, how long will player be out of the game, with or without treatment.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Front Cover Cover
Hand Clinics: Elite Athlete’s Hand and Wrist Injury i
Copyright Page ii
Table of Contents vii
Contributors iii
Preface xv
Chapter 1. Scapholunate Interosseous Ligament Disruption in Professional Basketball Players: Treatment by Direct Repair and Dorsal Ligamentoplasty 253
CLINICAL STUDY 254
DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES 254
SURGICAL TECHNIQUES 254
SPORT-SPECIFIC REHABILITATION 255
OUTCOME ASSESSMENT 257
OVERVIEW OF SLD IN PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS 257
SUMMARY 259
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 259
REFERENCES 259
Chapter 2. Perspective on Scapholunate Ligament Injuries in Baseball Players 261
INTRODUCTION 261
THE CONCEPT OF “TERMS” 261
RECOGNITION AND TREATMENT OF SCAPHOLUNATE TEARS 261
Chapter 3. Surgical Treatment of Scapholunate Dissociation in the Professional Basketball Player: Commentary 265
Chapter 4. Commentary: Scapholunate Ligament Injuries in Professional Football Players 267
Chapter 5. Scaphoid Fracture in the Elite Athlete 269
SCAPHOID FRACTURE IN THE ELITE ATHLETE 269
ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF INJURY 269
CLINICAL EXAMINATION 270
IMAGING 270
CLASSIFICATION AND TREATMENT 270
NONOPERATIVE TREATMENT OF SCAPHOID FRACTURES 272
METHODS OF INTERNAL FIXATION 272
PERCUTANEOUS INTERNAL FIXATION OF SCAPHOID FRACTURE: DORSAL APPROACH 273
ARTHROSCOPICALLY ASSISTED PERCUTANEOUS FIXATION OF SCAPHOID FRACTURES 274
VOLAR APPROACH: PERCUTATNEOUS INTERNAL FIXATION FOR SCAPHOID FRACTURES 275
PROXIMAL POLE FRACTURES 275
SCAPHOID MALUNION AND NONUNION 275
SUMMARY 276
REFERENCES 276
Chapter 6. Commentary: Scaphoid Fracture in an Elite or Professional Baseball Player 279
REFERENCE 280
Chapter 7. Commentary on Scaphoid Fractures in Basketball 281
EVALUATION 281
TREATMENT 281
TECHNICAL TIPS 281
Chapter 8. Scaphoid Fractures in Professional Football Players 283
SURGICAL VERSUS NONSURGICAL MANAGEMENT 283
RETURN-TO-PLAY GUIDELINES 283
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ATHLETES 284
Chapter 9. Return to Play After Scaphoid Fractures in Hockey Players 285
REFERENCES 285
Chapter 10. Fractures of the Hamate and Pisiform Bones 287
INTRODUCTION 287
FRACTURES OF THE HAMATE BONE 287
FRACTURES OF THE PISIFORM BONE 295
SUMMARY 298
REFERENCES 298
Chapter 11. Treatment of Fracture of Hook of the Hamate in Baseball Players 301
COMMENTARY OF TREATMENT OF PISIFORM FRACTURES IN BASEBALL PLAYERS 301
Chapter 12. Hook of Hamate and Pisiform Fractures in Basketball and Hockey Players 303
REFERENCE 303
Chapter 13. Hamate and Pisiform Fractures in the Professional Football Player 305
Chapter 14. Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Injuries in the Elite Athlete 307
INTRODUCTION 307
ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF INJURY 308
INJURY DIAGNOSIS 309
TREATMENT OPTIONS 311
SPORT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT 318
SPORT-SPECIFIC RETURN-TO-PLAY GUIDELINES 319
SUMMARY 319
REFERENCES 319
Chapter 15. Baseball Commentary “Traumatic TFCC Tear” 323
REFERENCES 324
Chapter 16. The Elite Athlete: Triangular Fibrocartilage Tears in Basketball Players 325
Chapter 17. The Treatment of TFCC Injuries in Football Players 327
Chapter 18. The Management of Ulnocarpal Abutment and Degenerative Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Tears in the Competitive Athlete 329
INTRODUCTION 329
BIOMECHANICS 330
PRESENTATION 330
EVALUATION 330
IMAGING 331
TREATMENT 332
NONOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT 332
OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT 332
OUTCOMES 335
CLINICAL PEARLS 336
SUMMARY 336
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 336
REFERENCES 336
Chapter 19. Central TFCC Tears in Baseball Players 339
Chapter 20. Elite Athlete: Chronic DRUJ Instability or Central TFC Tears 341
Chapter 21. Central TFC Tear/Ulnar Impaction Injuries in Professional Football Players 343
REFERENCES 344
Chapter 22. Pathologies of the Extensor Carpi Ulnaris (ECU) Tendon and its Investments in the Athlete 345
INTRODUCTION 345
PERTINENT ANATOMY AND MECHANICS OF THE ECU COMPLEX 345
IMPLICATION OF ULNAR QUADRANT TISSUE FAILURE IN ECU SUBLUXATION 348
DIAGNOSTIC CONSIDERATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION 349
STRATEGIES FOR TREATING PATHOLOGIES OF THE ECU AND INVESTMENTS 350
SUMMARY 356
Chapter 23. Treatment of ECU Injuries in Professional Baseball Players 357
Chapter 24. ECU Tendonitis and Subluxation in Elite Basketball 359
Chapter 25. Thumb Metacarpophalangeal Joint Collateral Ligament Injury Management 361
INTRODUCTION 361
THE THUMB ULNAR COLLATERAL LIGAMENT 361
ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF INJURY 362
INJURY DIAGNOSIS 362
TREATMENT OPTIONS 363
RCL TEARS 366
INJURY DIAGNOSIS 366
TREATMENT OPTIONS 366
REFERENCES 368
Chapter 26. Baseball Commentary “Thumb Ligament Injuries: RCL and UCL” 371
REFERENCES 372
Chapter 27. Commentary on RCL/UCL Injury in Basketball 373
EVALUATION 373
TREATMENT 373
TECHNICAL TIPS 374
Chapter 28. Thumb Metacarpophalangeal Joint Ligament Injury: Football Commentary 377
REFERENCES 378
Chapter 29. Fractures of the Thumb and Finger Metacarpals in Athletes 379
EPIDEMIOLOGY 379
ANATOMY 379
EVALUATION AND INITIAL MANAGEMENT 380
MANAGEMENT OF SECOND TO FIFTH METACARPAL FRACTURES 380
MANAGEMENT OF THUMB METACARPAL FRACTURES 385
REHABILITATION AND RETURN TO PLAY 386
COMPLICATIONS 386
SUMMARY 387
REFERENCES 387
Chapter 30. Commentary Metacarpal Fracture in the Professional Baseball Player 389
Chapter 31. Sports-Specific Commentary on Bennett’s Fractures in Professional Basketball Players: Bennett Fractures and Metacarpal Fractures 391
Chapter 32. Sport-Specific Commentary on Bennett and Metacarpal Fractures in Football 393
INTRODUCTION 395
ANATOMY AND MECHANISM OF INJURY 396
INJURY DIAGNOSIS 396
TREATMENT OPTIONS 397
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 401
REFERENCES 401
Chapter 33. Phalangeal Fractures in Baseball: Commentary 403
Chapter 34. Sports Specific Commentary: Phalangeal Fractures in Basketball 405
Chapter 35. Football Commentary: Phalangeal Fractures—Displaced/Nondisplaced 407
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR STOCK CAR AUTO RACING 408
Chapter 36. Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Fracture Dislocations: Stable and Unstable 409
INTRODUCTION 409
ANATOMY 409
MECHANISM OF INJURY 410
INJURY DIAGNOSIS 411
CLASSIFICATION 411
TREATMENT OPTIONS 412
REFERENCES 416
Chapter 37. Proximal Interphalangeal Joint Fracture Dislocations in Professional Baseball Players 417
INTRODUCTION 417
SPORT-SPECIFIC TREATMENT 417
SPORT-SPECIFIC RETURN-TO-PLAY GUIDELINES 418
SUMMARY 419
REFERENCES 419
Chapter 38. Sports-Specific Commentary on PIP Joint Fracture Dislocations in Professional Basketball Players 421
Chapter 39. Football Commentary: PIP Fracture 423
REFERENCE 424
Chapter 40. Tendon Ruptures: Mallet, Flexor Digitorum Profundus 425
MALLET FINGER 425
FLEXOR DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS RUPTURE 428
REFERENCES 429
Chapter 41. Baseball Commentary–Tendon Ruptures: Mallet, FDP 431
MALLET INJURIES 431
FLEXOR DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS INJURIES 431
Chapter 42. Tendon Ruptures: Mallet, FDP and ECRB Tendon Ruptures Associated with Lunotriquetral Coalitions in Professional Basketball Players 433
REFERENCES 434
Chapter 43. Commentary: Tendon Ruptures: Mallet, FDP in Football 435
Chapter 44. Boutonnière and Pulley Rupture in Elite Athletes 437
BOUTONNIERE 437
PULLEYS 442
REFERENCES 445
Chapter 45. Boutonnière and Pulley Rupture in Elite Baseball Players 447
PULLEY RUPTURE 447
BOUTONNIÈRE INJURIES 447
Chapter 46. Boutonnière and Pulley Rupture in Elite Basketball 449
Chapter 47. Boutonnière and Pulley Rupture Football Commentary 451
Index 453