High-Risk Stress Fractures in Elite Athletes
Sandlin, M.I.; Rosenbaum, A.J.; Taghavi, C.E.; Charlton, T.P.; O'Malley, M.J.
Instructional Course Lectures 66: 281-292
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 0065-6895 PMID: 28594506 Document Number: 694331
Surgeons should understand common factors that predispose high-level athletes to stress injuries as well as the importance of vitamin D and specifics related to vascular supply, location of injury, biomechanics, and susceptibility factors in high-level athletes who have stress injuries. Surgeons should be aware of diagnostic- and management-based recommendations for and the outcomes of anterior tibia, medial malleolus, tarsal navicular, and proximal fifth metatarsal stress fractures in professional athletes.