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Stress fractures most frequently occur in weight-bearing bones of the lower extremities, such as the tibia and fibula (bones of the lower leg), calcaneus (heel bone), metatarsal and navicular bones (bones of the foot). Less common are stress fractures to the femur, pelvis, sacrum, lumbar spine (lower back), hips, hands, and writs. Stress ...
Bone healing, or fracture healing, is a proliferative physiological process in which the body facilitates the repair of a bone fracture. Generally, bone fracture treatment consists of a doctor reducing (pushing) displaced bones back into place via relocation with or without anaesthetic, stabilizing their position to aid union, and then waiting ...
This reduction in bone density is known as stress shielding and can occur as a result of a hip replacement (or other prosthesis). [citation needed] The normal stress on a bone is shielded from that bone by being placed on a prosthetic implant.
In the course of avascular necrosis, however, the healing process is usually ineffective and the bone tissues break down faster than the body can repair them. If left untreated, the disease progresses, the bone collapses, [ 28 ] and the joint surface breaks down, leading to pain and arthritis.
In a 2001 survey of stress fractures in theropods, one toe bone from indeterminate ornithomimids out of fifteen examined was found to have a stress fracture. None of the eight finger bones examined was found to have a stress fracture. [11] Ornithomimus and Archaeornithomimus showed a significantly lower number of stress fractures than ...
However, acute traumatic osteochondral lesions or surgically created lesions extending into subchondral bone, e.g. by Pridie drilling, [2] spongialization [3] abrasion [4] or microfracture causing the release of multipotent mesenchymal stem cells from the bone marrow, may heal with repair tissue consisting of fibrous tissue, fibrocartilage or ...
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Fracture strength, also known as breaking strength, is the stress at which a specimen fails via fracture. [2] This is usually determined for a given specimen by a tensile test, which charts the stress–strain curve (see image).