Padel Injury Physiotherapy in Johannesburg

Padel has grown faster in Johannesburg than almost any other sport, and it produces an injury pattern of its own. The enclosed court creates high-frequency changes of direction, overhead smashes in a compressed space, and wrist loading off balls played low and hard against glass.

The result is lateral elbow pain that does not behave like classic tennis elbow, rotator cuff irritation driven by thoracic stiffness rather than the shoulder itself, TFCC wrist injuries, and lateral ankle sprains on the turn. Treating a padel elbow as a tennis elbow is the most common reason it does not settle.