Abstract
A rare case of multilevel transverse process stress fractures as a cause of low back ache in a professional cricket player has been presented. The report discusses the possible mechanism of such an injury in a cricket player and also highlights the preventive and therapeutic aspects of management in such patients. The report also stresses upon the need for early identification of such sports related injuries to prevent long term morbidity in the athletes.
Highlights
Cricket, though long heralded as a “gentleman’s game” [1], has evolved into shorter and more competitive versions involving greater aggression, more stressful training programmes and heavier workload on the athletes on par with any other professional sports
The present article deals with a fast bowler who had presented to us with chronic lowback ache following displaced stress fractures of multiple transverse processes of lumbar vertebrae
Spine injuries constitute 7% of cricket-related trauma [1], with fast bowlers being most prone to these injuries
Summary
Though long heralded as a “gentleman’s game” [1], has evolved into shorter and more competitive versions involving greater aggression, more stressful training programmes and heavier workload on the athletes on par with any other professional sports. This has expectedly ensued in an increase in the number of cricketing injuries lately: broadly classified into collision injuries (direct contact) and overuse injuries [1]. X rays of abdomen and lumbosacral spine were carried out that revealed fracture non-union of L1 to L5 vertebral transverse processes on left side (Figure 1 and Figure 2). Back radiographs at the last follow up, continue to show the evidence of non union of the left L1 to L5 vertebral transverse fractures
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