Femoral Neck Stress Fracture

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The patient I saw with this actually was about 20 years old and had an eating disorder. I saw another girl with an eating disorder who had several stress fractures and would not stop running.

Compression type is the good type if your avoiding surgery from what I remember. No guarantee no surgery but sounds better than what I originally thought.

However it won't heal as well if you don't have good nutrition.

Unless you get a couple stress fractures I don't think they need to test you for any endocrine or immune causes as there are lot with bone problems and it is most likely just a stress fracture caused by stress and diet from what you said. Those tests can get expensive and I don't think there would be enough concern of some underlying disease as you didn't mention other fractures.

I'm a 4th year med student and I shadowed in a sports medicine clinic for 2 years. I don't know a lot but I did see this.