Golf injuries

Golf is becoming an increasingly popular sport. Despite the fact that golf is not considered a strenuous sport its participants sustain injuries. The diversity of ages and abilities among golf players leads to wide spectra of injuries.

Katarina Grinell has written excellent documentation that consists primarily of case reports of golf related injuries. The documentation review the information of the world´s knowledge of the biomechanics of the golf swing and golf related injuries. Most of the information has been found from MEDLINE or from the Swedish Golf Federation.

The report answers the following questions,

What are the patterns of golf injuries, incidence, site of injury, age, sex, ability of play (hcp)?

Are the injuries due to overuse or to acute traumatic causes?

What are the biomechanics of the golf swing?

Are there biomechanic differences dependent on sex and ability at play (hcp)?

Which injuries can be related to the biomechanics of the golf swing, and how?