Stress Fractures (Subscribe)  

Radiology case 456-415 Clinical presentation: Young adult male, who was training as a boxer. He began to develop pains in the right leg and consulted a physician 6 weeks before, but continued with his skipping exercises, jumping more with the right leg than his left.
There is periosteal newbone and sclerosis over...

Information on the most common stress fractures and causes, as well as symptoms and treatment methods

Authors Martinez & Tsai. 2004
Contents - Introduction; Pathophysiology; Risk Factors; Epidemiology; Clinical Presentation; Differential Diagnoses; Diagnostic Testing And Grading Of Stress Fractures; Treatment, Prevention, And Complications; Bibliography
Synonyms and related keywords: fatigue fractures, march fractures, metatarsal stress fractures, overuse injury
The stress fracture is a common overuse injury seen in athletes...

occur as the result of repetitive loading below yeild strength & are most common in lower extremity (metatarsals> calcaneus> tibia)
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Clinical presentation: 30 year old woman with pain in the right ankle after her aerobics class.
There is a line of density that crosses the calcaneum a little anterior to the calcaneal tuberosity and roughly parallel to it. This line forms the line that lies just anterior to the tuberosity in the...