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Lacrosse has a unique set of injuries for those athletes that play at a fairly high level where the game is more skilled and the ball is in the air less than it is on the ground versus the game that's less skilled and the ball is on the ground most. Lacrosse is occlusion sport not as violent as football, but there is a fair amount of contact involved and with the ball down on the ground, people do get hit pretty hard and you need to be aware that injuries can take place.
Uncommon, but possible in Lacrosse is the head injury especially from a swinging stick. The other thing that you sometimes find is, an athlete who will collide with another athlete head to head. Lacrosse helmet doesn't give the same level of protection as a football helmet and not designed to withstand that blow. So we really want to be aware of head injuries and make sure that we take care of all those details with head injuries by seeing right sports medicine professional.
Other injuries that we see in Lacrosse fairly commonly are contusions, bruises especially because the stick being swung. Athletes who are down on the ground the fair amount will get a lot of scrapes and contusions, abrasions, scratches and some bloody types of wounds that need to be cleaned up and fixed before you can go back to play.
Ankle sprains are fairly common in Lacrosse as well as some planting, cutting knee injuries like sprains of the knee to the collateral ligaments or the cruciate ligaments and we have to be on top of that as well.
Also Lacrosse because of the nature of the contact that we find some, a lot of the blows are delivered by and to the shoulder area and separations of the AC joint or shoulder separation and possible shoulder dislocations also take place because of the type of contact that's involved in the game.
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