RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A stress fracture of the lumbar spine in a professional rugby player
JF British Journal of Sports Medicine
JO Br J Sports Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
DO 10.1136/bjsm.2006.032789
A1 Bernard H Castinel
A1 Philippe Adam
A1 Christophe Prat
YR 2006
UL http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2006/11/30/bjsm.2006.032789.abstract
AB In modern rugby, the spine is subjected to great physical pressure. Indeed there are more and more impacts involving axial loading and radial torque especially on the cervical spine but also on the lumbar spine. The players have become larger, the game faster, with more sequences and less recovery time .We can distinguish acute spinal injuries but also chronic and overuse injuries. We present here the case of a 32 year old international professional rugbyman playing in a Championship level French team, who presented a stress fracture of the right pars interarticularis of L5.