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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 eponymous fractures - Wikipedia

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    unstable spinal fracture-dislocation at the thoracolumbar junction: Thoracic Spine Fractures and Dislocations at eMedicine: Hume fracture: A.C. Hume: olecranon fracture with anterior dislocation of radial head: Ronald McRae, Maxx Esser. Practical Fracture Treatment 5th edition, page 187. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008.

  5. 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.

  6. Bone fracture - Wikipedia

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    More images: Linear fracture Parallel to the bone's long axis more images: Transverse fracture At a right angle to the bone's long axis May occur when the bone is bent, [37] and snaps in the middle. Oblique fracture Diagonal to a bone's long axis (more than 30°) more images: Spiral fracture or torsion fracture

  7. Freiberg disease - Wikipedia

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    A systematic review by Chen et al. (2024) examined the role of advanced imaging techniques, including high-resolution MRI and CT scans, in early diagnosis and treatment planning for Freiberg disease. The review highlighted the potential of these modalities in detecting subtle bone and cartilage changes, potentially allowing for earlier ...

  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. 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 ...