Bone stress injuries, including stress fractures, can be debilitating to athletes but are also a problem for the U.S.

Stress is a familiar foe in 2025, with packed schedules, rising costs, and digital overload keeping tensions high. While its ...

But what if that pain doesn’t go away? It could be a stress fracture—a crack in the bone caused by repeated stress rather ...

Spiral fractures wrap around the bone shaft in a spiral pattern, typically resulting from twisting injuries like those that occur during skiing accidents. Stress fractures develop gradually from ...

lower extremity stress fractures are obviously most common. These injuries occur as a result of repeated overload of the bone without adequate recovery time. This occurrence creates an imbalance ...

Background Bone stress injuries are common in high-level athletics. Aim To describe the demographics, frequency and anatomical location of stress injuries (ie, stress reaction and stress fractures) in ...

Growth plate stress fractures most commonly occur in teenage climbers at the time of the pubertal growth spurt, often around the timing of breast growth for girls and pubic hair in boys. The fingers ...

Being underweight can lead to weaker bones and increased fracture risk. Being overweight puts extra stress on bones, especially in the hips and knees.

md2.huji.ac.il Background: Repetitive high bone strain and/or strain rates, such as those that occur during running, contribute to stress fractures as well as promoting maintenance of or increase in ...