An Official Journal of Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
ISSN:1897-2276
e-ISSN: 2449-9145
Dr, Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar Co. Mayo, Ireland
Case Reports
Management of sports related and recreational knee injuries in children: surgical aspects
Author(s):
Talat Mahmood*, Waqas Ali, Javaid Iqbal, Syed Kashif Mehdi, Hafsa Talat and Paul O’grady
Sports-related knee injuries are common in children and the management of these injuries continues to evolve.
Sports injuries in children affect both growing bone and soft tissues and can result in damage of growth mechanisms
with subsequent lifelong, growth disturbance. With an increasing number of paediatric and adolescent athletes
presenting with knee injuries due to sports, a greater demand is put on clinicians and radiologists to assess the
specific type of knee injury.
Traumatic forces applied to the immature skeleton cause a different type of injury than those seen in adults due
to the differences in vulnerability of the musculoskeletal system, especially at the site of the growth cartilage. An
overview of several sport-related knee injuries of young athletes is presented, based on anatomical location and
their management. The training programmes sh.. Read More»
10.37532/1897-2276.2021.16(1).30
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