The most common injury at the Olympics

Many new patients are perplexed telling me that they have pain but they did not do anything. Many conditions I treat are not from a trauma or a single incident, and the same thing is true for Olympic athletes. Even though we commonly hear about traumatic injuries to Olympians, a majority of their injuries are what are commonly called repetitive or cumulative trauma injuries. These are small repetitive over stressing of tissues that eventually cause enough damage to begin to cause pain or other symptoms.
Repetitive trauma injuries are easier to treat and have a better prognosis when they are treated early before they become chronic and more severe.
The most common injury at the Olympics