Background The stress fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone (5MT) frequently occurs in youth soccer players in Japan, and it is very important issue to prevent this fracture. Objective To confirm ...

But are we all talking about the same thing, and does it matter? Stress fractures are a type of ‘bone stress injury’ (BSI).1 A BSI represents the inability of a generally normal bone to withstand ...

These injuries occur as a result of repeated overload of the bone without ... "dreaded black line" stress fracture of the tibia/shin and the Jones fracture of the fifth metatarsal, heal poorly ...

An 11-year-old boy (a soccer hobbyist) presented to our department with a 1-month history of knee pain in the absence of any trauma event that he could recall. There were no B symptoms and no ...