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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,536
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/12/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS, HAD SUDDEN PAIN IN RT LOWER LG, RT ACHILLES TENDON R UPTURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 10/28/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS DEVELOPED RIGHT LOWER LEG PAIN- DX- ACHILLES TENDONIT IS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2002 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT WAS PLAYING TENNIS, WENT TO HIT A BALL PUSHED OFF RIGHT FOOT, FELT A POP IN LOWER LEG & SEVERE PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/20/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PLAYING TENNIS RUPTURED ACHILLES TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| LT POSTERIOR CALF TENDON RUPTURE-WHILE PLAYING TENNIS-AT HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2002 | Age: 18 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Tennis, Fences or fence posts |
| PATIENT WAS PLAYING TENNIS AT THE TENNIS COURT AND FELL OVER THE FENCE. DX-AVULSION FRACTURE DISTAL FIBULA, SUBLUXATION TENDON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/01/2002 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Tennis, Ceilings and walls |
| LAC RT LOWER LEG, PLAYING TENNIS WITH A FRIEND AT HER HOUSE AND RAN INT O A BRICK WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2002 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Tennis |
| FELL PLAYING TENNIS-FRACTURED LEFT FIBULA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/10/2002 | Age: 65 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT HEARD POP WHILE PLAYING TENNIS, R ACHILLES RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT DX SPRAINED LEG - DUE TO TWISTING LEG WHILE PLAYING TENNIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/01/2002 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS STRAINED RIGHT ACHILLED TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PLAYING TENNIS AND STEPPED ON FOOT FEELING A PAIN IN CALF STRAINING IT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/28/2002 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| RHABDOMYOLOSIS - 49 YOM PLAYING TENNIS THIS MORNING, LEGS STARTED CRAMP ING AFTERWARDS, LAID DOWN, STOMACH CRAMPING, DRANK ***/ATE BANANA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/26/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| 32 YOM DEVELOPED CALF PAIN WHILE PLAYING TENNIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/20/2002 | Age: 55 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PLAYING TENNIS POP TO LT CALF. RT GASTROCNEMIUS TEAR. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2002 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| WAS PLAYING TENNIS, HAD INTENSE CRAMPING IN BOTH LOWER LEGS. DX: DEHYDR ATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2002 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PLAYING TENNIS A FEW DAYS AGO, NOW HAS PAIN BEHIND R KNEE AND CALF. DX. ACUTE GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2002 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| LOWER LEG STRAIN - PLAYING TENNIS AND TRIED TO TURN TOO FAST AND PULLED ACHILLES TENDON IN LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/09/2002 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| LOWER LEG SPRAIN - PLAYED TENNIS AND AFTERWARDS BEGAN HAVING PAIN IN RI GHT CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/24/2002 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT STATES INJURED CALF PLAYING TENNIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/12/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| INJURY TO LEG WHILE PLAYING TENNISDX: CALF STRAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2002 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Foreign Body |
| Product: Tennis |
| WHEN RETRIEVING BALL OUTSIDE TENNIS COURT, RAN INTO THORN BUSHTHORN IN LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/23/2002 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PATIENT WAS PLAYING TENNIS AND SUSTAINED SPRAIN LEFT CALF. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/03/2002 | Age: 57 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PLAYING TENNIS HEARD A "POP" LLE. ACHILLES TENDON. - RUPTURED LEFT ACHI LLES TENDON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/28/2002 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS STRAINED LEFT ACHILLES TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2002 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS STRAINED RIGHT CALF |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/21/2002 | Age: 56 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS STRAINED LEFT LOWER LEG |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/26/2002 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Tennis |
| SHARP PAIN TO L ANKLE WHILE PLAYING TENNIS. DX-ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/21/2002 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PT PLAYING TENNIS--DX RUPTURED ACHILLES TENDON |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/07/2002 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Lower Leg | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Tennis |
| PATIENT INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO WHILE PLAYING TENNIS. D: MUSCLE INJURY, LEG. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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