Fractures

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Stress fractures

A caution to youth athletes

Children are being encouraged to take up sports earlier and earlier, on multiple teams and at greater levels of intensity. This pattern can lead to stress factors, finds a prospective seven-year study of more than 6,800 adolescent and preadolescent girls. Learn more.

Related Conditions and Treatments:

Sports injuries

Stress fractures

Spinal fracture

Hip fracture

Eye socket fracture

Facial fracture

Head/brain injury

Clinical Services

• Bone Health Program
• Critical Care Transport Program
• Division of Sports Medicine
• General Orthopedic Program
• Hand and Orthopedic Upper Extremity Program
• Injury Prevention Program
• Lower Extremity Program
• Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Orthopedic Center
• Orthopedic Trauma Program
• Trauma Center