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Nerve injury in sports is not very frequent. According to the report of the Japanese Athletic Association in 1971, peripheral nerve injuries accounted for only 0.3% of sports injuries. Among all peripheral nerve injuries treated in their centre within 18 years, 5.7% were related to sports. The nerves most frequently involved were brachial plexus, radial nerve and ulnar, peroneal and axillary nerves in order of frequency (Takazawa et al., Brain Nerve Inj 3:11–17, 1971). The common mechanisms of injury were compression, traction, ischaemia and laceration (Feinberg et al., Sports Med 24:385–408, 1997).
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Chan, J.Sy., Ip, J.Wy. (2018). Upper Limb Nerve Injuries in Sport. In: Luchetti, R., Pegoli, L., Bain, G. (eds) Hand and Wrist Injuries In Combat Sports. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52902-8_18
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