Abstract
The principal sporting injuries in children tend to be bony injuries rather than the tendon and ligamentous injuries of the adult population. This is largely due to the immaturity of the skeletal tissues and the presence of apophyses and growth plates, leading to bony avulsion or growth plate injuries. There is the added complication of apophyseal avulsion/disintegration or epiphyseal growth plate fractures that lead to serious limb length discrepancies and deformities. A selection of the more common injuries will illustrate these issues.
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Pereira, J.K., Van der Wall, H. (2023). Sporting Injuries in the Child and Adolescent. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_144
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