Playing smarter: How you can prevent some common pickleball injuries

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Dynamic warmups and stretching can help prevent common pickleball injuries, a University of Utah health expert said.

Pickleball can cause injuries like fractures and sprains, with falls being common.

Pickleball offers social and physical benefits despite the injury risks; it promotes community and exercise.

SALT LAKE CITY — Last year, Mike Green was playing pickleball when he tore both of his hamstrings.

After he got his hamstrings repaired, he then had to get one of his hips replaced, eventually returning to the pickleball courts in April.

"I'm still not near all the way back, you know, but I'm patient, and it's gonna take a while," Green said.

He regularly plays pickleball at the Fairmont Park pickleball courts and said that when he returned to playing, he was "sligh