Bone stress injuries (BSI) in the young athlete can cause significant time loss, and impact their training at a key developmental phase of bone maturation. Return to play timelines at this age are variable, depending on the site and metabolic potential for the injury to heal, and any associated medical or psychosocial comorbidities. Risk factors […]
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Not all bone stress injuries are the same: Accounting for anatomical location should become a clinical standard
In this blog post we summarise the key points of our systematic review about low- and high-risk bone stress injuries (BSIs). Our study (recently published in BJSM) was a collaboration between the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Harvard Medical School, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg and Indiana University [1]. Why […]