Sport-specific chronic wrist pain

Sport	Repetitive wrist motion	Injury
Volleyball (bump/dig)	Direct trauma to radial side	Radial styloid contusion de Quervain tenosynovitis
Baseball batting Biking Hockey goaltenders Martial arts Racquet sports Volleyball (spike)	Direct trauma to ulnar side	Pisiform contusion FCR tendonitis Ulnar neuropathy
Football lineman Gymnast (tumbling/vault)	Load hyperextension (blocking)	Dorsal impaction
Baseball batting Biking Golf Gymnastic bar or rings Rowing Tennis	Over- or excessive gripping	de Quervain tenosynovitis Carpal tunnel Hypothenar hammer syndrome
Martial arts Tumbling (gymnastics or cheer)	Axial load with body weight	Distal radial physeal stress reaction Kienböck disease Scaphoid impaction Ulnar impaction Hypothenar hammer syndrome
Baseball (turning the barrel of the bat) Golf (downswing) Tennis (backspin)	Grip with wrist neutral or flexed with ulnar deviation	ECU tendonitis TFCC tear
Rowing Strength training	Grip with resisted extension	Intersection syndrome (Oarsman's wrist)
Bowling Tennis (top spin)	Repetitive pronation	DRUJ/TFCC

FCR: flexor carpi radialis; ECU: extensor carpi ulnaris; TFCC: triangular fibrocartilage complex; DRUJ: distal radioulnar joint.

Courtesy of Joseph Chorley, MD.

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