In a widely reputed British Journal of Sports Medicine in the international spectrum it has been published in the recent days that the intensive training that is imparted to the young elite tennis players for retaining the professional competence in its turn leads to extensive damages in their spines. It has been averred in this regard, that through the Magnetic resonance imaging, better known in the abbreviated form as MRI, scans it has come to the knowledge the young privileged tennis players with no previous symptoms of pain projected a remarkable growth of a variety of spinal abnormalities in the lower back and the greatest concern lays in the fact that a bulk of them tend to be irreparable.

The scan in general was related to the various problems of the players numbering to 28 out of the total 33 and in the range of 16 to 23 in respect of age while they were attending a coaching camp or center of national repute. The scans in detail revealed the presence of a good number of abnormalities that included spinal disc degeneration, herniated discs, complete fractures, and stress fractures known as pars lesions. In addition, as far as nine very players were concerned three of the 10 pars lesions were completely fractured. There had been other twenty three players who were already having early signs of diseased facet joint, known as arthropathy, causing moderate permanent degeneration in nine of them. It is also to be noted that the facet joints facilitate the spine a lot to bend backwards. It had also been estimated that almost around 70% the rate of facet joint arthropathy was four to five times higher than that of the general population.

In addition to this, there had been the indication of acute skin hardening in respect of 20 players whereas on the other hand there were found to be 24 players out of the total strength affected from bone overgrowth while a good number of growth of cysts in the lubricating or synovial joint fluid were found among a total strength of 10 players. The spinal discs of 13 players were also found to be drying out and it was due to presence of inadequate lubrication and were bulging in another 13.

It has been affirmed by the authors in this esteem, that since there is a great requirement   of more repetitive and rapid rotation and stretching of the lower spine than other sports a lot of care should be taken for the modifications of the training schedules and also the techniques for minimizing the risk of greater damages.