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Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports

BACKGROUND: As golf becomes increasingly popular, the number of injuries while playing golf also increases. We experienced two cases of traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old Korean man and a 43-year-old Korean man were diagnosed as havi...

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Autores principales: Ha, Yong-Chan, Kwon, Yu-Jun, Yoo, Jun-Il, Kim, Ji-Seok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1771-3
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author Ha, Yong-Chan
Kwon, Yu-Jun
Yoo, Jun-Il
Kim, Ji-Seok
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description BACKGROUND: As golf becomes increasingly popular, the number of injuries while playing golf also increases. We experienced two cases of traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old Korean man and a 43-year-old Korean man were diagnosed as having linear tibia shaft fractures on the right leg and left leg, respectively. Both of them were treated with closed intramedullary nails. Calculated impact power of the golf ball at the time of tibia fracture was 3372 and 5825 N, respectively. Radiologic and clinical complications such as nonunion and delayed union were not found up to the latest follow-up at 12 months postoperatively. CONCLUSIONS: Players and watchers of golf must take precautionary measures before striking a golf ball. It is advisable that players watching a golfer hitting a golf ball should stand a long way behind or in front of the golfer striking the golf ball. The danger of such injury is on the rise because more and more people are enjoying golf nowadays. Warning players of such dangers is one preventive measure to avoid such injuries in the future.
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spelling pubmed-61093522018-08-29 Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports Ha, Yong-Chan Kwon, Yu-Jun Yoo, Jun-Il Kim, Ji-Seok J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: As golf becomes increasingly popular, the number of injuries while playing golf also increases. We experienced two cases of traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old Korean man and a 43-year-old Korean man were diagnosed as having linear tibia shaft fractures on the right leg and left leg, respectively. Both of them were treated with closed intramedullary nails. Calculated impact power of the golf ball at the time of tibia fracture was 3372 and 5825 N, respectively. Radiologic and clinical complications such as nonunion and delayed union were not found up to the latest follow-up at 12 months postoperatively. CONCLUSIONS: Players and watchers of golf must take precautionary measures before striking a golf ball. It is advisable that players watching a golfer hitting a golf ball should stand a long way behind or in front of the golfer striking the golf ball. The danger of such injury is on the rise because more and more people are enjoying golf nowadays. Warning players of such dangers is one preventive measure to avoid such injuries in the future. BioMed Central 2018-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6109352/ /pubmed/30143057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1771-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Kwon, Yu-Jun
Yoo, Jun-Il
Kim, Ji-Seok
Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
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title_full Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
title_fullStr Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
title_short Traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
title_sort traumatic tibia shaft fractures caused by the impact of a golf ball: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1771-3
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