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It's Lindsay Smith, Rogers, and today we are talking about the fastest growing sport in the United States, pickleball.

And as fast as pickleball grows, injuries pile up even faster.

Dr. Eric Bowman, a sports medicine surgeon and researcher at Vanderbilt University, talks to Stephanie Desmond about orthopedic and eye injuries, how older people may be more at risk, and how to avoid getting

injured on the court. Let's listen. Eric Bowman, thanks so much for joining me.

Good to meet you, Stephanie. So today we're going to talk about pickleball, which is like the fastest growing

sport in the United States. People love it or hate it, depending on how close they live to the courts.

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