Golf Injuries: Vertebral Fractures

Golf Injuries: Intervertebral Discs and Vertebral Fractures – MD Dietmar Göbel

Injuries of the intervertebral discs as well as vertebral fractures belong to the less known injuries in golf. But how can we avoid these serious golf injuries?

Vertebral Fractures: Lateral Shear Forces

Lateral shear forces, high torsion forces, pelvic obliquity create a high risk of injury to the intervertebral discs and vertebral fractures of the spinous process. Vertebral slippage and a herniated disc and in extreme cases, a fusion of lumbar vertebrae, are the major injury risks. Famous examples are Tiger Woods and Steve Bowditch.

In this video MD Dietmar Göbel explains how the Core Balance Free Release method of Consistency Golf Swing can significantly minimize this risk of injury?

Any movement pattern, regardless of the type of sport or movement at work, which tilts sideways or forces it into a hollow back must be regarded as damaging to the spine.
Of course, the intervertebral discs in the lowest levels are particularly strained by hollow back stress and the so-called intervertebral disc posterior ring, the fibrous ring around the intervertebral discs can be destroyed and herniated discs occur.

Tilting Movements and Hollow Back Movements

This will be the case especially with asymmetrical movements, this means with tilting movements plus hollow back movements. I regard it as much more serious that these extreme hollow back movements can lead to fatigue fractures of the so-called vertebral arch and overloading of the facet joints in the traditional golf method.

Everyone is afraid of the herniated disc, including myself, which of course has to be avoided, no question about it. If we now have a movement pattern that overtaxes the joints and leads to vertebral fractures, which can almost always only be treated by surgery at some point, this is even more serious.

A herniated disc can often be treated with a non-surgical treatment for months or a year. But the dangers of injury in the bone, see the fatigue fracture, the so-called spondylolysis of the lumbar vertebrae, which then leads to vertebral slippage (spondylolisthesis), especially if the movement is continued unchanged pathologically, must result in surgery.

This is actually a chain reaction. If we operate on this level, i.e. stiffen it, and the movement pattern does not change, it is clear that the higher levels are more strained. It is then simply a question of time as to when the golfer will stop golfing or surgery will be required.

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