Abstract
The importance of physical activity during childhood and adolescence has come to light,
with an increase in sports-related acute traumatic and overuse injuries as a major
disadvantage. A solid understanding of the physiology of the growing skeleton, together
with knowledge about age- and sex-related differences in the occurrence of acute traumatic
and overuse injuries is necessary. Every musculoskeletal radiologist should also be
familiar with the appearances of these injuries on different imaging modalities. This
review focuses on all these aspects concerning acute traumatic and overuse injuries
among children and adolescents.
Keywords
sports injuries - lower extremity injury - traumatic injury - overuse injury - musculoskeletal
injury
