How to Mimic a Broken Ankle

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Tip 1 - Stress Fractures. Sports injuries, what are stress fractures? | Patient

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lisa Castillo | permalink

$Stress Fractures. Sports injuries, what are stress fractures? | Patient$

A stress fracture is a crack in a bone caused by repeated stresses which are individually insufficient to fracture it. Stress fractures are not full thickness...
Tags: fractures,sports injuries and sports medicine,stress fractures

For further reading: http://patient.info/doctor/stress-fractures ^[1]

Tip 2 - Assessment of the Injured Ankle in the Athlete

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lauritsen Vidar | permalink

Objective: To present appropriate tools to assist in the assessment and evaluation of ankle injuries in athletes.Data Sources: A MEDLINE search was performed for the years 1980–2001 using the terms ankle injuries and ankle sprains.Data Synthesis: ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC164372/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - How Do You Know When You Have a Stress Fracture?

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by miathan 6 | permalink

Sometimes the conventional wisdom isn't so wise. In running, among the many supposedly ironclad "rules" are three sports medicine matters that merit debunking. First, that cortisone shots are an inherently bad treatment and that you shouldn't receive more than three shots for any injury. Second, that you can't run on a stress fracture, so if you have an injury but can still run, then it can't possibly be a stress fracture. Third, that orthotics can cure every injury. Let's look at each of these and sort fact from fiction.

For further reading: http://www.runnersworld.com/injury-treatment/how-do-you-know-when-you-have-a-stress-fracture ^[3]