The lower leg and the foot are the most common areas to get a stress fracture. But they also can happen in other areas, such as the arm, spine, or ribs. To diagnose a stress fracture, your health care ...

One year earlier she had been diagnosed with a stress fracture of her tibia and treated with a bone stimulator and physiotherapy modalities, including ultrasound. She had also tried a short period of ...

Sometimes an MRI scan or a bone scan is needed. Sometimes a child or teen with a stress fracture will need a cast, splint, brace, or boot. Rarely, surgery is needed. Kids who have pain from a stress ...

For most people, these fractures don’t need surgery. If this type of fracture is treated without surgery, the patient has to wear a special boot and walk with crutches to take stress off of the ...

The scooter is gone. The boot is not. That was the result of Reese Waters’ latest trip to the doctor to evaluate the stress fracture in his right foot, still healing but not healed, progress but not ...