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tibial fracture uncommon yet severe injury occurs professional athletes within major sports leagues injuries often debilitating professional athletes require extensive rehabilitation prior returning play purpose study investigate impact tibial fracture athletic performance four major united states sports leagues publicly available professional sports database pro sports transactions queried tibial injuries january 01 2015 may 31 2023 search included four major us sports leagues quantify compare athletic ability injury performancebased statistics collected standardized player ratings periods surrounding date injury percent change player performance measured stratified pearson correlation test used analyze player demographics total 24 professional athletes suffered 28 confirmed tibial fractures across leagues upon return 147 decrease overall player performance across leagues national basketball association national football league national hockey league athletes decrease 345 291 142 respectively following return play major league baseball players demonstrated 81 increase player performance following recovery tibial fracture players suffer tibial fractures often undergo immediate surgery unfortunate cases may require multiple subsequent procedures additionally athletes spend several months recovering prior return upon return athletes performance may decreased however study required strengthen association player performance tibial fracture recovery