Operative Elbow Injuries Among Hungarian Elite Wrestlers

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Szabolcs Lajos Molnár Saint John’s Hospital and Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God

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Péter Hidas National Institute for Sports Medicine

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György Kocsis Nottingham University Hospitals

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Gábor Rögler Semmelweis University

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Péter Balogh Aladár Petz Hospital Kastélypark Clinic

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Miklós Farkasházi Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God

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Péter Lang Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/ijatt.2014-0045
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Volume 19: Issue 6
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12–16
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Background:

Upper extremity injuries are common in wrestling, most of which do not require surgery.

Methods:

We retrospectively documented the case histories of six elite wrestlers who sustained elbow injuries that required surgical treatment, three of which involved reinjury and another surgical procedure.

Results:

All but one of the six initial injuries were associated with a defensive maneuver. Reinjury was more common for freestyle wrestling than for Greco-Roman style. The average time between the initial elbow injury and surgical intervention was 22 months. One-half of the wrestlers with elbow injuries that required surgery were reinjured and underwent revision surgery.

Conclusions:

All of the elite wrestlers waited for a long period of time before receiving surgery for the initial injury, and the reinjury rate was high.

Szabolcs Lajos Molnár is with the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Saint John's Hospital, Budapest, Hungary and Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest, Hungary.

Péter Hidas is with the National Institute for Sports Medicine, Department of Sports Surgery, Budapest, Hungary.

György Kocsis is with Nottingham Shoulder and Elbow Unit, Nottingham University Hospitals, UK.

Gábor Rögler is with Semmelweis University Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Péter Balogh is with the Trauma and Hand Surgery Department, Aladár Petz Hospital, Györ Hungary and Kastélypark Clinic, Tata, Hungary.

Miklós Farkasházi and Péter Lang are with the Department of Orthopaedics, Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest, Hungary.

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