This is not how the patient – a male in his late 20s – intended his day to go: He was competing in an off-road motorcycle race that involved catapulting...

Ski instructors aren’t supposed to take spills, so good are they at the sport. At least that’s what their admiring students assume. Nevertheless, this 33-year-old instructor did indeed fall one...

The price of lifting too heavy an object too high overhead was, for this 68-year-old female, a massive rotator cuff tear in one shoulder. She was a few years younger...

Recreational water-skiing is punishing enough on the body. But step up to competition level, and the stresses and strains affecting ligaments, bones and joints multiply many-fold – as do the...

At 20, this University of Nevada Reno student clearly had a promising career ahead of her as a competitive swimmer. Until, that is, a mishap in the pool one day...