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Stress Fractures in Sport: Foot

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We present an outline of common stress fractures of the foot incurred by athletes. Specific non-surgical and surgical treatment recommendations for such injuries including for Jones, navicular and sesamoid injuries, which can be career ending, are described.

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  1. Department of Sports Medicine, PAMF-Sutter, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Amol Saxena

  2. Titletown Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, Green Bay, WI, USA

    Robert Anderson

  3. The Sports Medicine Clinic, Brier, WA, USA

    Richard T. Bouché

  4. Gundersen Health System, Lacrosse, WI, USA

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    Brian Fullem

  6. Department of Orthopedics, University of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

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Saxena, A. et al. (2021). Stress Fractures in Sport: Foot. In: Robertson, G.A.J., Maffulli, N. (eds) Fractures in Sport. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72036-0_27

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