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Stress fracture!!!

🤓A bone stress injury (BSI) is the inability of bone to withstand repetitive loading, which results in structural fatigue and localised bone pain & tenderness (Warden et al. 2014).

🤕If the repetitive loading is continued this can develop into a stress fractures, where a crack in the bone appears.

🔭It is important to get a diagnosis through imagery & location of BSI to manage the injury. Can be classified into low risk & high risk injuries. This is why it is important to get a diagnosis from medical professional ASAP.

Management
✅diagnosis
✅modify activity
✅investigate why it occurred
✅is there a vitamin D & calcium deficiency

🗣If in doubt check it out