Stress fractures: Classification and management

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 45-54

  Kaeding, Christopher C ^a   Najarian, Robert G ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Return to play; Stress fracture; Stress reaction

Indexed keywords

AGING; BONE SCINTISCANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; LEG; LEG INEQUALITY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; REVIEW; SPONDYLOSIS; STRESS; STRESS FRACTURE; TIBIA TORSION; TRAINING;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FRACTURES, STRESS; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS; SPORTS MEDICINE;

EID: 78650402502     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2010.10.1807     Document Type: Review

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