Crossfit is a sport discipline born in 2000, expecting to make many moves consistently involving upper body elements, above all elbow, wrist and hand. We can ascertain injuries coming from traumas happening while making olympic power lifting typical moves, which can lead to wrist ligaments conditions (above all scapho-lunate ligament injuries and triangular fibrocartilage complex injuries). Some exercises performing movements in vertical positions, for example handstand walk and handstand pushups, can lead to fractures often involving metacarpals. Moreover, overload injuries and unbalanced training volumes injuries can happen to this sport athletes, and we are talking about flexor and extensor tendons intersectional inflammation conditions – respectively epitrocleitis (the Golfer’s elbow) and epicondylitis (the Tennis elbow).
