Why play volleyball prone to finger blue?

A group of researchers warns that professional volleyball players are at risk of serious injury to the shoulder artery, causing symptoms to be painful, cold and pale.

Through a survey of 99 volleyball athletes in the Netherlands, with an average age of 24, the researchers found that 27 people had cold fingers when playing football, 18 had blue fingers and 20 were pale finger syndrome. Among them, 8 people were cold fingers and 4 people were green or pale fingers regularly.

Play professional volleyball at risk of pain, blue
and pale fingers due to blood vessel damage in the shoulder.

According to the researchers, these symptoms may be caused by damaged shoulder arteries that cause small blood clots. Three years ago, 6 male athletes among the volleyball athletes surveyed had blood clots in their fingers, due to aneurysm in the shoulder. They then had surgery to repair the damaged blood vessel and returned to play after a few weeks.

When a volleyball player collides or throws a ball, it will create arterial compression, like when squeezing a tube of toothpaste. This makes blood clots move down the fingers. Such injury also occurs for professional baseball players, the team said in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

The group is still working on further research on the cause of vascular injury causing blood clots in the hands. At the same time, call for doctors to take care of athletes should pay close attention to the signs of risk of vascular injury and recommend athletes to check health when having such symptoms to avoid harm Castle.