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0.7%-15% of athletic
injuries are stress fractures |
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Track athletes have the highest
amount of stress fractures |
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The first metatarsal accounts
for 10% of metatarsal stress fractures |
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The second, third and fourth
metatarsals account for 90% of
the metatarsal injuries |
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There is a decrease in the incidence
of stress fractures in men with
lean body mass |
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8.8% of stress fractures occur
in the metatarsals |
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25.3% of stress fractures occur
in the tarsal bones |
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0.9% of stress fractures occur
in the sesamoids |
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28% of stress fractures occur
in the calcaneus |
