Angela Jackson (Physiotherapist): Why are kids getting stress fractures?
The Athletic Evolution Podcast
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How to Reduce Stress Facts in the First Place
I think we've got to track growth spurts. What might look like a high hamstring tendonopathy or a hip flexor tendonopathy gets diagnosed in the adolescent population while they're growing. It's way more likely to be a bone stress injury. I lump my a-vulsions in with my stress fractures because the healing rate and everything else is the same. We need to make sure that as they're going back to sport that they understand that no pain is the only level of pain to train on. That's fantastic. So kids with bone stress injuries can't have pain when they go back to sport. With things like severs or else good slatters, we get them allow
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