Imaging of stress fractures
A stress fracture is an overuse injury in that repetitive mechanical loading of bone leads to bone damage that exceeds bone repair over time. This article refers to this type of overuse injury as opposed to an insufficiency fracture, which occurs due to normal physiological stresses on abnormal bone, commonly secondary to osteoporosis. Stress fractures […]
Dr Thomas Luff, Dr Abdul Gafoor
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust