Vitor Neves Sato, Tatiane Lumi Moriwaki, Marcos Hiroyuki Ikawa, Leonardo Massamaro Sugawara, Artur da Rocha Correa Fernandes, Abdalla Youssef Skaf, André Fukunishi Yamada
Soccer is the most popular sport worldwide, and it is associated with high injury rates, with most of these injuries occurring in the lower extremities. Particularly, in youth soccer players with immature skeleton, the physeal plate is two to five times weaker than the surrounding fibrous structures, and therefore more vulnerable to injury. The physeal plate consists of epiphyses and apophyses, with the former serving as tendon attachment sites and being subject to traction forces. There are two types of apophyseal injury: (i) apophyseal avulsion, which consists of an acute separation across the physeal plate; and (ii) apophysitis, an injury caused by chronic and repetitive contraction of musculotendon unit, leading to inflammation of the growth plate cartilage...
January 15, 2024: Skeletal Radiology