To illustrate the imaging findings in different acute and chronic injuries occurring at the pelvic girdle and thigh: muscles, tendons, bones, and joints in football players.

Football is a worldwide popular game that requires continuous training and sometimes intense practice. Footballer’s pelvis, hips and thigh muscles are subjected to a great deal of strain with turning, quick acceleration and deceleration, and of course kicking [1, 2]. Injuries in these players are common and so frequent. Many cases are managed conservatively, like in low grade muscle strain or tendon sprain, and imaging might not be needed. In more serious and sometimes chronic injuries, physiotherapists and surgeons have difficulties in diagnosis and in...

I-Acute avulsion fracture: Pelvic apophyseal injuries are common in young football players. Apophyses, bony attachments of the tendons, are a common site of acute avulsion secondary to forceful muscle contraction. This might affect the anterior superior iliac spine, anterior inferior iliac spine (fig.1), ischial tuberosity (fig. 2), iliac crest and pubic bones, as well as the greater and lesser trochanters of the femur. A displaced avulsed bone fragment is diagnostic at plain X-ray or CT images. These injuries are usually managed conservatively with a good...

Avulsion fracture, apophyseal stress injuries, muscle injuries, heterotopic ossification and hip labrum and chondral injuries are examples of common injuries encountered in football players. Radiographs, US, CT and MRI are helpful in the diagnosis of different patterns of acute and chronic injuries.

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