FEMORAL STRESS-FRACTURES

This article focuses on fatigue fractures of the femur, the fourth mos t common site of stress fractures in athletes. Femoral shah stress fra ctures have excellent healing potential when diagnosed early and treat ed nonoperatively. Given the increasing interest in physical fitness o ver the past two decades, it important for the sports medicine physici an to understand the origin, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of t hese injuries.