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  2. March fracture - Wikipedia

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    March fracture is the fracture of the distal third of one of the metatarsal bones occurring because of recurrent stress. It is more common in soldiers, but also occurs in hikers, organists, and other people whose duties entail much standing (such as hospital doctors).

  3. Stress fracture - Wikipedia

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    Stress fractures of the foot are sometimes called "march fractures" because of the injury's prevalence among heavily marching soldiers. [2] Stress fractures most frequently occur in weight-bearing bones of the lower extremities, such as the tibia and fibula (bones of the lower leg), metatarsal and navicular bones (bones of the foot).

  4. List of orthopaedic eponyms - Wikipedia

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    Bennett's fracture; Boxer's fracture; Bumper fracture; Burst fracture; Bosworth fracture; Chance fracture; Chopart's fracture-dislocation; Clay-Shoveller fracture; Colles' fracture; Cotton's fracture; Dupuytren's fracture; Duverney fracture; Essex-Lopresti fracture; Galeazzi fracture; Gosselin fracture; Hangman's fracture; Holstein–Lewis ...

  5. Ottawa ankle rules - Wikipedia

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    March 1998. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06 — an independent journal about evidence-based medicine. "Ottawa rules for x-ray of knee, ankle and foot". gp-training.net — a GP education and training resource. Archived from the original on 2008-03-20. (graphical explanation).

  6. Bone fracture - Wikipedia

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    An anatomical classification may begin with specifying the involved body part, such as the head or arm, followed by more specific localization. Fractures that have additional definition criteria than merely localization often may be classified as subtypes of fractures, such as a Holstein-Lewis fracture being a subtype of a humerus fracture ...

  7. List of medical mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...

  8. A year after a 'catastrophic' leg injury, gymnast Brody ... - AOL

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    By March, testing things out on floor. And there he was on Thursday night, a sizable brace and a healthy amount of tape covering the four-inch-ish scar that runs along the outside of his right leg ...

  9. Lisfranc injury - Wikipedia

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    A Lisfranc injury, also known as Lisfranc fracture, is an injury of the foot in which one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus. [1] [2]The injury is named after Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, a French surgeon and gynecologist who noticed this fracture pattern amongst cavalrymen in 1815, after the War of the Sixth Coalition.