There’s little evidence to help avoid stress fractures

By Roxanne Nelson (Reuters Health) – Although there are plenty of opinions about what causes tiny, painful stress fractures in the bones of regular runners, a new review of existing research finds solid evidence for only two risk factors. Having had a stress fracture in the past raised the risk of having them again by five-fold and being female more than doubled it, researchers reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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There’s little evidence to help avoid stress fractures