Sports-related stress fracture of the clavicle : a case report

Stress fracture of the clavicle is extremely rare, even in sports medicine. The authors have treated a young man who, for several years practised a traditional physical activity in which groups of people make human towers by standing on each others shoulders. For the last three years the patient exp...

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Published in:International orthopaedics 1998, Vol.22 (4), p.266-268
Main Authors: ROSET-LLOBET, J, SALO-ORFILA, J. M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Clavicle - injuries
Fractures, Stress - diagnosis
Fractures, Stress - etiology
Fractures, Stress - therapy
Gymnastics - injuries
Humans
Injuries of the limb. Injuries of the spine
Male
Medical sciences
Pain - etiology
Risk Factors
Sensitivity and Specificity
Technetium
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents
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Summary:Stress fracture of the clavicle is extremely rare, even in sports medicine. The authors have treated a young man who, for several years practised a traditional physical activity in which groups of people make human towers by standing on each others shoulders. For the last three years the patient experienced pain in the medial aspect of the right clavicle when he increased the intensity of his training. Bone scintigraphy revealed endosteal thickening which was indicative of a stress reaction. The mechanism of injury, the diagnosis of stress fracture, and a review of the literature are presented.
ISSN:0341-2695
1432-5195
DOI:10.1007/s002640050256