11/12/2025
๐๐ค๐ค๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ! ๐ผ๐จ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก๐กโ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ค๐ฅ๐ช๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ง๐จ, ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ค ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ช๐ง๐๐๐จ ๐๐
About 20 million Americans are now playing pickleball, drawn to the sport as a fun, accessible way for people across age groups to get in some low-impact exercise.
Not so fun? When your doubles partner accidentally whacks you in the face with a paddle, or that pickleball traveling at 40 mph hits a player in the eye. The racket sport, invented in 1965 as a hybrid of lawn tennis and table tennis, has surged in popularityโand so have injuries, costing between $250โ$500 million to treat in 2023 alone. ๐ตโ๐ซ
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https://www.ama-assn.org/about/publications-newsletters/look-out-pickleball-s-popularity-soars-so-do-eye-injuries