Sinner, “overuse injury”: what’s behind the withdrawal from Cincinnati | Libero Quotidiano.it

“Although we cannot enter into the specifics of the sample’s condition, we can state that when a tennis player complains of a knee problem without having suffered an acute trauma, as seems to be the case with Sinner, we are probably facing a overuse pathology, caused by continuous stresses, jumps, stops, slides, and violent changes of direction required by modern tennis”: Andrea Bernetti, full professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UniSalento and general secretary of Simfer (Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation), said this to Adnkronos Salute speaking about Jannik Sinner‘s withdrawal from the Cincinnati Open due to injury.

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The tennis player himself confirmed his withdrawal: “My knee is bothering me and despite having worked hard with my medical team, I must admit that I am not yet ready to compete. I am very disappointed but I look forward to coming back and now I am focusing on preparation for the US Open.” The South Tyrolean champion had undergone some checks in Milan a few days before the scheduled departure for the United States.

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For the expert, the choice of his staff would have been “the right precaution not to stress the knee too much and therefore to allow, on the one hand, to manage the load and on the other to undergo a dedicated therapeutic protocol to arrive in the best possible condition” at the US Open, “while preserving the joint at the same time.” Bernetti then added: “These conditions occur when repeated microtraumas on musculoskeletal tissues exceed the body’s capacity for compensation and regeneration. Scientific literature indeed highlights how tennis puts a lot of stress on the lower limb joints. In fact, almost surprisingly, lower limb injuries represent between 31% and 67% of all tennis injuries, dominating the medical case history compared to upper limbs. The knee area is involved in about 10-15% of total injuries affecting tennis players. Of these, 60-70% do not result from a traumatic event (such as a sudden twist with the foot fixed), but are classified as overuse injuries (overload).”

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