The first pickleball game Bernadette Reichert ever played was going great until the last three minutes, when she broke two bones in her wrist. Her short-lived pickleball career was on hold.
Reichert is by no means alone.
Pickleball is widely touted as North America’s fastest-growing sport. With the rapid rise in participants has come a surge in injuries.
“People are doing things their grandparents didn’t do,” MUHC orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Martineau tells The Gazette’s René Bruemmer. “And then paying the price for that.”
