Risk factors for tibial stress injuries: a case-control study.

Objective: To identify physical and behavioral characteristics related to the incidence of tibial stress injuries (TSIs).

Design: Case-control study. No clinical care was conducted.

Tibial stress injury: relationship of radiographic, nuclear medicine bone scanning, MR imaging, and CT Severity grades to clinical severity and time to healing.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between severity grade for radiography, triple-phase technetium 99m nuclear medicine bone scanning, magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and computed tomography (CT); clinical severity; and recovery time from a tibial stress injury (TSI), as well as to evaluate interassessor grading reliability.

Materials And Methods: This protocol was approved by the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee, the Stanford University Panel on Human Subjects in Medical Research, the U.S.

The effect of 8 mos of twice-weekly low- or higher intensity whole body vibration on risk factors for postmenopausal hip fracture.

Objective: Whole body vibration is a potential therapy for age-related loss of musculoskeletal competence. Vibration has improved bone in animal models, but evidence in humans is limited. Relative efficacy of low- vs.

Do capacitively coupled electric fields accelerate tibial stress fracture healing? A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Tibial stress fractures increasingly affect athletes and military recruits, with few known effective management options. Electrical stimulation enhances regular fracture healing, but the effect on stress fractures has not been definitively tested.

Hypothesis: Capacitively coupled electric field stimulation will accelerate tibial stress fracture healing.