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Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the diagnosis of a middle cuneiform stress fracture. The patient’s stress fracture healed nonoperatively over a 10-week period complicated by nonadherence to a fracture boot, after which she was progressed back to full activity.
Cuneiform stress fractures are rare injuries. They can occur from too much stress being placed on the midfoot. Symptoms of cuneiform fractures include midfoot pain and swelling. Cuneiform stress fractures are treated using rest and immobilization. In this article, we’ll discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatment for cuneiform fractures.
Learn about the different types of Cuneiform Fracture including Medial Cuneiform Stress Fractures and their healing times.
The 2 forces responsible for cuneiform stress fractures are bending and compression. 18,63 Bending forces are applied across the cuneiforms due to their location in the midfoot.
While cuboid and cuneiform fractures are uncommon, they can result in significant short- and long-term pain and dysfunction, particularly if they are missed or mismanaged. The presentation, diagnosis, and nonoperative management of cuboid fractures will be reviewed here.
A Cuneiform fracture is an injury of the foot in which one or more of the Cuneiform bones are fractured. [2] . The annual incidence of cuboid fracture is 1.8 injuries per 100,000 population. [3] People who have suffered acute fractures to one or more cuneiform bones typically have excruciating pain over their dorsal or dorsomedial foot.
We report a case of a 23-year-old woman who sustained a stress fracture to the medial cuneiform. Isolated medial cuneiform fractures are extremely rare with less than 10 cases reported in the literature.
We report a case of stress fracture of isolated middle cuneiform bone that occurred in 30-year-old trainee physician. A 30-year-old trainee physician presented to the of ce with com-fi plaints of right foot pain while walking for the past 3 weeks.
Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the diagnosis of a middle cuneiform stress fracture. The patient’s stress fracture healed nonoperatively over a 10-week period complicated by nonadherence to a fracture boot, after which she was progressed back to full activity.
Stress fractures of cuneiform bones are extremely rare and usually reported to happen in athletes or recruits. We describe a case of middle cuneiform insufficiency fracture that occurred in a young trainee physician with severe hypovitaminosis D, who joined his training a few weeks before it happened.