Pickleball Injury Attorney

What Exactly Is Pickleball and How Is It Different from Paddleball?

Pickleball is a fast growing sport in the United States, and does resemble paddleball and tennis, to some extent. Pickleball courts are the same size as a badminton court, and the net is lowered to the ground like a tennis court, where pickleball is often played. The players do use paddles much like paddleball, but the pickleball racquet is heavy, has round holes and the rules are unique to the game. The ball that is used is a light wiffle ball, which is hit with a heavier pickleball paddle. This may be a recipe for disaster, as the lightness of the ball will send it flying in the air, but the paddle will force the players to come down too hard on the ball, pushing them off balance to slip, trip and fall during a game. Pickleball is played like tennis, with a wiffle ball and a heavier racquet, that will cause a serious injury to another team member if it is mistakenly slammed down on someone’s head instead of hitting the ball for a grand slam! As pickleball is sweeping the country as the newest wave of exercise among seniors and people of all ages, so are the injuries to these overzealous individuals, ready but not always able to start playing this new sport.

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Poorly Maintained Pickleball Courts Are to Blame for Serious Injuries for the Elderly

If seniors and people of all ages want to play pickleball on specific pickleball courts, they have a rude awakening that can lead to a serious injury, when they play on poorly maintained pickleball courts. The rise in pickleball players across the country is going to also be a huge red flag for healthcare providers, of people who assume the sport is “easy” to play, but may find that they are easily injured instead of getting fit. Seniors are picking up pickleball and assuming that it is a sport that is less strenuous than tennis, but they would be wrong. People who play pickleball can be injured with: tendinopathy, plantar fasciitis, distal extremity fractures and head traumas, which can be a serious injury to sustain at any age.³ If the pickleball court or tennis court inside or outside where pickleball is being played is not supremely maintained, there will be chipped courts, uneven playing surfaces or pools of water or debris that can cause a pickleball player to slip, trip and fall during the playing of a normal pickleball game.

Pickleball Courts Are the Locale for Sexual Assaults and Assaults in General

People who are overly excited to “get out and enjoy life” by playing pickleball, are tending to forget that the same rules of life apply to a pickleball player that apply to anyone else who is out living their best life. For example, there are people who are more excited about going out to play their pickleball set with friends at the local park, who summarily forget that it may not be safe to do that at in even daylight hours, in certain areas of the town or city. It is well known that people who frequent parks in the evening hours to play and participate in any sport, are putting themselves at risk for a sexual assault or an assault in general. This is because parks in the evening are an attractive location for perpetrators of sexual crimes to frequent in the early and later hours of an evening.² Sexual offenders often frequent parks and recreational areas after hours and even during the daytime, to find people who have participated in sports, who may be too tired after a game of pickleball to resist an attack on their person from an offender. If you have been injured by being attacked, assaulted, or sexually assaulted while playing pickleball in a park or recreation center, you can call us at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422 right now. We can initiate a lawsuit to go after the at-fault parties to your loss, to get you the recovery compensation that you deserve in this case.

People Are Constantly Injured Learning and Playing the Sport of Pickleball with Poor Training and Bad Equipment at the Pickleball or Tennis Courts

Senior citizens are picking up the game of pickleball in droves, and are the first to become seriously injured playing this sport. Anyone playing pickleball on a tennis court, will have the same hazards of playing pickleball as if they are playing tennis. That fact is getting lost on many individuals, who falsely believe that pickleball is not as “aggressive” or strenuous as tennis. These people falsely believe that pickleball is an alternative to tennis, and that is it somehow “healthier” for them than the playing of tennis, but this is not the case. People engaging in pickleball who dive for the ball to keep the ball in play, are the most likely to end up in the emergency department of a hospital or urgent care center, with a serious and debilitating injury.⁴ People who are over the age of 60 years old are highly likely to suffer a pickleball related injury, which can be even more serious than a similar tennis injury, and can be life-altering for the elderly pickleball player, including:

• Sprains
• Strains
• Broken legs
• Broken arms
• Slip and fall injuries
• Dive for the ball injury
• Fractured knees
• Fractured hips
• Broken foot
• Broken fingers
• Concussion
• Head trauma

Some pickleball players are also hit quite hard with the ball in their eyes, causing serious eye injuries. Elderly and senior players of pickleball can also sustain a retinal detachment with a vitreous hemorrhage in the eye area, which is an injury that can permanently affect vision in the individual for many months to come.¹ Most players of pickleball do not focus on wearing protective eye gear, but it would help prevent eye injuries and blunt traumas to the eyes, among the players of all ages. If you have suffered a serious injury playing pickleball, you can call us now at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422 today. We will review your claim for free, and give you access to our team of lawyers with experience in personal injuries sustained from playing pickleball.

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We can offer to you a free second opinion case review, if you have not received the best result working with someone else on your personal injury claim. We have top-tiered attorneys who specialize in personal injuries, and we can give you access to an experienced attorney in Los Angeles at our law firm, to go over your personal injury claim today.

Can I Sue for a Pickleball Injury?

Yes, we can sue for a pickleball injury. At any age, you may take longer than you expect to recover from a pickleball sports injury, and it may affect your quality of life and family relations, as well as your financial status to pay the medical bills from the emergency department and hospital visit you acquired for your losses. You can call us at our Los Angeles office, to talk to our case lawyers, who can file a lawsuit on your behalf, based on the merits of your claim.

Average Case Value of a Pickleball Injury

The average case value of a pickleball injury can range from $30,000 to $2 million for a permanent and debilitating injury. Your exact case value will be determined once we talk to you and review your claim for free with our legal team at the Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422.

How Long Does It Take to Settle and to Get Paid on These Cases?

You may still be under a doctor’s care when you call us to review your pickleball injury claim, and that is okay. It can take up to 4-7 months to settle your personal injury from being hurt playing pickleball.

Statute Of Limitations – How Long Do I Have to File a Lawsuit?

The statute of limitations in California for personal injury lawsuit filing is two years. The statute of limitations in California for harassment and discrimination lawsuit filing is one year, with a two year timeframe to file for wrongful termination.

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You can call us now for a free consultation and review for your pickleball injury claim. Just pick up your mobile phone, and give us a call today at Normandie Law Firm at 800.790.5422 right now, to review your claim with an experienced attorney at our law firm.

References

¹ Atkinson, C. F., Patron, M. E., & Joondeph, B. C. (2022). Retinal Tears Due to Pickleball Injury. Retinal Cases & Brief Reports, 16(3), 312–313. https://doi.org/10.1097/ICB.0000000000000965

²Budd, K., Mancini, C., & Bierie, D.M. (2018). Parks, playgrounds, and incidents of sexual assault. Sexual Abuse a Journal of Research and Treatment, 1-27. https://doi:10.1177/1079063218797712

³Vitale, K., & Liu, S. (2020). Pickleball: Review and Clinical Recommendations for this Fast-growing Sport. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 19(10), 406–413. https://doi.org/10.1249/JSR.0000000000000759

⁴Weiss, H., Dougherty, J., & DiMaggio, C. (2021). Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010-2019. Injury Epidemiology, 8(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-021-00327-9

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