Stress fractures take longer to heal and may require a brace, a walking boot, and crutches. Shin splints and stress fractures are common overuse injuries often occurring in athletes participating ...

Objective: To compare the long term outcomes of the two treatment options for navicular stress fractures: non-weightbearing cast immobilisation and surgical fixation. Design: Retrospective case study.

Who’s had it? Rich Kenah, a former Olympian at the 800-meter distance, used a bone stimulator to help heal a navicular stress fracture in his foot. “The stress fracture healed, I returned to ...

A navicular stress fracture is an injury is often seen in athletes due to overuse or trauma. Navicular fractures tend to worsen over time and feel most painful during or after periods of exercise.

But that game was to prove his last of the season, as he was diagnosed with a stress fracture of his back which ... down and that’s why I had the back brace. I did nothing for two months.

Milwaukee Bucks center Pau Gasol will miss the remainder of the playoffs after undergoing surgery Thursday to repair a navicular stress fracture in his left foot, the team announced Friday.