Radiographs have poor sensitivity (15-35%) in early stage injuries until late along the bone stress continuum (30-70%). 9 However, radiography is accessible so is often used as the first-line ...

Stress fractures are tiny bone cracks from repetitive stress, not a single break. Athletes, military recruits, and those starting new exercise routines are at higher risk. Pain worsens with ...

Anyone who does a lot of sport risks a stress fracture if the bones are overloaded. The injury occurs gradually. Sports ...

A stress reaction is an early sign of a bone stress injury and can turn into ... but it’s a really a continuum of having an injury that hasn’t been fully healed." The recovery time from ...

A fracture is the medical term for a broken bone. It occurs when the physical force exerted on the bone is stronger than the bone itself. Your risk of fracture depends, in part, on your age.

Bone stress injuries, which include stress fractures, can be debilitating to athletes but are also a problem for the U.S. military, according to public health experts. “Service members who ...

Physical activity is known to strengthen bones by creating mechanical stress, which activates bone cells like osteocytes to promote new bone formation. However, this process becomes less effective ...

They will also look into how much of the bone marrow stress response that they observed in the mice also occurs in humans.

In a current opinion piece, authors describe five cases in which runners using carbon fiber plate footwear sustained bone stress injuries. Millions of endurance runners use footwear that has an ...

A classic fracture occurs when a force, for example from a blow or kick, suddenly impacts the bone from the outside. In contrast, a stress fracture, often referred to as a fatigue fracture ...