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Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report

BACKGROUND: Humeral stress fractures are rare injuries usually related to sports practice and joint overload without a direct trauma. A proximal humeral stress fracture has never been reported in a CrossFit athlete. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a stress fracture in the humerus of a 22-year-old woman...

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Autores principales: Godoy, Ivan R. B., Malavolta, Eduardo A., Lundberg, Jan Stefan, da Silva, Jader J., Skaf, Abdalla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2532-1
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author Godoy, Ivan R. B.
Malavolta, Eduardo A.
Lundberg, Jan Stefan
da Silva, Jader J.
Skaf, Abdalla
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description BACKGROUND: Humeral stress fractures are rare injuries usually related to sports practice and joint overload without a direct trauma. A proximal humeral stress fracture has never been reported in a CrossFit athlete. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a stress fracture in the humerus of a 22-year-old woman after intense CrossFit training. Patient’s previous medical history included amenorrhea and reduced Vitamin D levels. The patient was treated conservatively and resumed CrossFit training after she was advised not to until follow up imaging. CONCLUSIONS: We present the MRI features of the case and emphasize the difficulties in diagnosis due to multiple possible causes of shoulder pain in a CrossFit athlete and by negative findings on early radiographs. Hormonal variations, Vitamin D insufficiency and the patient’s attitude towards exercise were important factors that contributed for the stress injury after weight-lifting in CrossFit.
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spelling pubmed-64547292019-04-19 Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report Godoy, Ivan R. B. Malavolta, Eduardo A. Lundberg, Jan Stefan da Silva, Jader J. Skaf, Abdalla BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: Humeral stress fractures are rare injuries usually related to sports practice and joint overload without a direct trauma. A proximal humeral stress fracture has never been reported in a CrossFit athlete. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a stress fracture in the humerus of a 22-year-old woman after intense CrossFit training. Patient’s previous medical history included amenorrhea and reduced Vitamin D levels. The patient was treated conservatively and resumed CrossFit training after she was advised not to until follow up imaging. CONCLUSIONS: We present the MRI features of the case and emphasize the difficulties in diagnosis due to multiple possible causes of shoulder pain in a CrossFit athlete and by negative findings on early radiographs. Hormonal variations, Vitamin D insufficiency and the patient’s attitude towards exercise were important factors that contributed for the stress injury after weight-lifting in CrossFit. BioMed Central 2019-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6454729/ /pubmed/30961567 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2532-1 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Godoy, Ivan R. B.
Malavolta, Eduardo A.
Lundberg, Jan Stefan
da Silva, Jader J.
Skaf, Abdalla
Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title_full Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title_fullStr Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title_short Humeral stress fracture in a female CrossFit athlete: a case report
title_sort humeral stress fracture in a female crossfit athlete: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6454729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30961567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2532-1
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