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Angela Jackson (Physiotherapist): Why are kids getting stress fractures?

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The Rise of Stress Fractures in Kids After COVID

I think we are much, much more aware now. If I'd have said to a cohort sort of 10, 15 years ago, what's a PARS fracture, which is what we call the low back pain fractures, they probably wouldn't have had a clue. And certainly I would say that now awareness is much more out there. We're definitely my threshold for diagnosis as any kid with back pain for a week is one until we prove it otherwise. What we've been interestingly seeing since COVID is that I'm picking up stress fractures in the knee, in the hip, in the foot, all over the place. So yeah, it makes perfect sense.

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