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The Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volume 11, Issue 5, September–October 1993, Pages 587-591
The Journal of Emergency Medicine

Clinical communication
Stress fracture of the femoral neck in a long distance runner: Biomechanical aspects

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Abstract

With the rising public interest in physical fitness, emergency physicians are seeing an increasing number of stress fractures. Early diagnosis, followed by conservative management, allowed a long-distance runner with a compression type stress fracture of the femoral neck to return to running. The biomechanical cause of this injury may be related to erosion of the sole of the running shoe that reduced its shock absorption and increased the potential for injury.

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