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Postoperative Imaging of Sports Injuries

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Athletic injuries to the elbow include those due to acute trauma and chronic overuse. While falls and collisions occur in many sports, activities requiring repeated overhead throwing, striking, and serving represent a special risk for elbow injuries. Susceptible structures include ligaments, muscles, tendons, peripheral nerves, bones, and articular cartilage. Many conditions can be successfully managed with nonoperative therapies—including activity modification, physiotherapy, medications, injections, and taping/bracing. More serious injuries and those unresponsive to conservative treatment may require surgery. Imaging studies have an established role in helping triage players to appropriate initial management. Cases where recurrent or new symptoms develop after surgery, or where a second injury occurs, are often also referred for imaging. In these situations, correct interpretation of the radiologic findings requires an understanding of the operation performed, the expected postsurgical changes, and complications associated with each type of procedure. This chapter will review some common procedures for a variety of athletic elbow injuries, emphasizing the use of advanced imaging tests to identify normal postoperative features and abnormal findings.

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Rubin, D.A. (2020). Elbow. In: Rowbotham, E., Grainger, A.J. (eds) Postoperative Imaging of Sports Injuries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54591-8_3

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