Resumen de Scoping review and quality of studies on theepidemiology of pickleball injuries
Martí Casals, Sergi Jimenez, Toni Caparrós Pons, Rafael Martínez Gallego, Ernest Baiget
Pickleball is a sport that combines several elements of tennis, badminton and tabletennis. It is played on a court similar to the badminton court and the objective of the game is tohit the ball over a net similar to the tennis net. During these years, its popularity has grown sub-stantially in the United States of America and it has been a sport played by people of differentages. It is important to know the different injuries that can occur in this sport in order to preventand treat them. The aim is to perform a scoping review following the PRISMA-SCR guidelines toidentify the main health problems and injury characteristics suffered in pickleball athletes.A total of 4 articles from different databases were found based on the keywords and booleanoperators: ("Pickleball") AND ("injury" OR "injuries" OR "pathology*" OR "illness*" OR " disease*").The most common injuries that occur are sprains and strains, and they tend to belong to the oldage. However, more epidemiological studies about pickleball injuries are needed. Few studieshave been found where the data sources show limitations to subsequently be able to carry outepidemiological studies with more precision. Even so, the scientific evidence is limited to pro-vide applicable and conclusive results and more studies are needed on this topic in pickleball.
