She had multiple stress fractures, a knee injury and shin splints.
"It's hard to believe that at age 24 you might be on the way out, but I had multiple stress fractures, tendinitis, I had been dropped a few times, in a wheelchair, a cast — lots of things were stop signs".
Suspecting multiple stress fractures, we scrutinized patient history and performed a hematological examination.
Suspecting multiple stress fractures, we scrutinized his history and performed a hematological examination.
However, cases of multiple stress fractures with no predisposing factors are rare, and are even uncommon in the presence of predisposing factors.
Open image in new window Fig. 10 CT of the pelvis of an elderly female with multiple stress fractures due to osteoporosis.
Multiple stress fractures have been reported in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and in female patients with amenorrhea due to insufficient nutrition, excessive weight control, or excessive exercise.
However, no case of multiple stress fractures in a young man who was not a professional athlete and who had no stress fracture risk factor, such as, an endocrine disease, has been previously reported.
Bilateral fractures, multiple fractures, depressed fractures, fractures with diastases >3 mm of the fracture lines or occipital fractures are more commonly seen in child abuse [ 22, 24, 25].
Dasaolu has suffered multiple injuries – from a stress fracture on his foot to two torn hamstrings – but insists that he is no longer the injury-prone athlete Van Commenee has labelled him.
