Burners and Stingers

With training underway for the fall high school football season, now is a good time to remind athletes and their parents of a common injury in contact and collision sports: burners and stingers. The injury is named for the pain that radiates from the neck and shoulders to the hand. It feels like an electric shock or lightning bolt down the arm. Its' actually an injury to the brachial plexus, the tangle of nerves that provides feeling and movement to… [more]