When the patient walks on the fifth metatarsal on the outside of the foot (pinky toe), the bone is stressed to the point that it fractures and though the patient can walk on a fifth metatarsal ...

1 Graduate School of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan 2 Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Saitama, Japan Background No firm consensus has been established regarding the ...

Pain over the affected bone, local swelling and warmth ... line" stress fracture of the tibia/shin and the Jones fracture of the fifth metatarsal, heal poorly and often are treated with surgery.

However differential diagnosis suggests the examination of fractures such as at the malleolus, fifth metatarsal, navicular, anterior calcaneus process and at the midtarsal bones. During sport events ...