Stress fractures are small bone cracks from overuse. Learn about the causes, who's at risk, and current methods for diagnosis ...

Causes, Treatment, and PreventionMedically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MDA stress fracture is generally the result of ...

A stress and a hairline fracture are the same injury, most often affecting the foot or leg. Learn what could speed up healing ...

The edema pattern was non-linear, without discrete form, which in conjunction with lack of symptoms also argues against stress fracture ... pattern of the ankle on MRI. This talar edema pattern ...

Our study demonstrates the importance of early imaging with MRI to detect stress reactions before they can progress to stress fractures. This is a retrospective study of imaging data collected at the ...

With the pain in her hip increasing, O’Keeffe received another MRI on a machine with higher resolution, which revealed a femoral stress fracture. “It’s good we have a clear answer.

If a high-demand athlete presents with a talar body stress fracture—where you see oedema on the MRI T2 images and a visible fracture line on the MRI T1 images—rather than waiting initially, an ...

an MRI of your femur/thigh or lower back may also be helpful in establishing a correct diagnosis. A hamstring injury would likely be treated with physical therapy. A stress fracture or sciatic ...

Individuals were imaged on a 0.2 T extremity MRI unit (10 ankles; Artoscan, Esaote) or 1.5 T MRI units (2 ankles; GE Medical Systems). For all ankles, images were obtained in sagittal, coronal and ...