SPORTS AND PERIPHERAL-NERVE INJURIES - REPORT OF 190 INJURIES EVALUATED IN A SINGLE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY LABORATORY

We retrospectively reviewed electrodiagnostic studies performed on 169 athletes with 190 sports injuries to nerve fibers. Eighty-eight perce nt of the injuries were to the upper extremity. Athletes participated in 27 sports, but over one third of injuries were sustained playing fo otball. The most common injuries were burners (n = 38) and cervical ra diculopathies (n = 18), followed by median (n = 28), axillary (n = 22) , ulnar (n = 19), suprascapular (n = 14), and peroneal (n = 11) monone uropathies. This is the largest reported series of sports-related nerv e injuries. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.