By Dr. Sarang Desai — Fellowship-Trained Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon Sports Medicine | McKinney and Flower Mound, Texas If you play or coach on turf, you've probably heard players say "turf beats up your body." As a foot and ankle surgeon who takes care of athletes, here's the honest version of what the research shows. Overall injury rates on modern turf and grass are pretty similar. But when you zoom in on the foot and ankle specifically, the picture changes: artificia