🎯 Título: Lesiones en deportes de raqueta en niños y adolescentes
📌 En breve: Una revisión narrativa de 60 estudios encontró que el tenis es el deporte de raqueta con más lesiones y las más graves en población pediátrica y adolescente, con predominio de lesiones en miembro inferior.
🔬 Puntos clave:
### Qué se revisó
Los autores revisaron en PubMed estudios de los últimos 10 años sobre lesiones por deportes de raqueta en menores de 18 años (y estudios en adultos que incluyeran población pediátrica/adolescente), identificando 60 estudios elegibles, 18 de ellos descriptivos.
### Dónde y en qué deporte
Las lesiones de miembro inferior (rodilla y tobillo) fueron las más frecuentes, seguidas de las de miembro superior (principalmente hombro); la mayoría de los estudios reportó múltiples lesiones musculoesqueléticas en la misma persona. El tenis fue el deporte de raqueta que causó el mayor número de lesiones, y también las más graves.
### Un área con poca investigación
Las lesiones oculares fueron menos frecuentes pero potencialmente graves. Los autores señalan que hay pocos estudios sobre lesiones musculoesqueléticas por deportes de raqueta en población pediátrica y adolescente en general.
🎯 Aplicación clínica para LATAM: Con el crecimiento del tenis y el pickleball en la región, programas de prevención dirigidos a jóvenes deberían priorizar el cuidado de rodilla, tobillo y hombro, con atención particular a los jugadores de tenis.
⚠ Limitaciones: Es una revisión narrativa (no sistemática con metaanálisis) que combina estudios heterogéneos, muchos de ellos descriptivos, lo que limita las conclusiones causales.
Objectives
The popularity of racket sports has been increasing globally in recent years, with tennis remaining the most played sport worldwide and pickleball gaining popularity in the United States. While many studies have addressed injuries associated with racket sports in adult athletes, minimal data are available focusing on young athletes in pediatric and adolescent populations. This study aimed to review the various injuries associated with racket sports in pediatric and adolescent populations.
Methods
Using the PubMed database, we searched for studies completed in the last 10 years that addressed injuries due to racket sports in age groups up to 18 years old, as well as adult studies that included pediatric and adolescent populations.
Results
In total, 60 studies met our inclusion criteria, of which 18 were descriptive studies. The most common injuries reported in the studies were lower extremity injuries, specifically knee and ankle injury. Upper extremity injuries were the next most common, specifically shoulder injuries. Most of the studies reported multiple musculoskeletal injuries as opposed to just one. Tennis was found to be the racket sport that caused the highest number of injuries, as well as the most severe injuries.
Conclusions
There are few studies on musculoskeletal injuries from racket sports in pediatric and adolescent populations. This review found that tennis had the highest number of studies, and different types and severities of injuries were well-described. Lower extremity overuse injuries were the most common, followed by upper extremity injuries. Eye injuries were less common but serious. Injuries cause pain, time loss in school, and increased healthcare burden, so there is public health relevance to conducting more racket sport studies. There is a significant amount of physical and mental growth occurring during childhood and adolescence; therefore, more kinematic studies and systematic reviews should be conducted pertaining to racket sports, which will hopefully help with injury prevention in these age groups.
Cómo citar:
Shrestha M, Usmani A, Karlov S, Harris A, Patel DR. (2026).
Racket Sports-Related Injuries in Youth Athletes: A Narrative Review.. International journal of environmental research and public health.
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph23010135 ↗ PMID: 41595928 ↗ Acceso al paper: Ver completo ↗
