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When you get a stress fracture, one of the earliest visible indications on an X-ray or an MRI or a CT scan is a thing called periosteal elevation. Your doctor might see it on ultrasound, x-rays or MRI studies....way before your ever see a crack in the bone.
Since it's one of the earliest changes in the bone when you start to get a stress fracture, I thought it might be useful to talk about the term "periosteal elevation" really means.
What is periosteal elevation in a stress fracture in a runner?
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
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When you get a stress fracture, one of the earliest visible indications on an X-ray or an MRI or a CT scan is a thing called periosteal elevation. Your doctor might see it on ultrasound, x-rays or MRI studies....way before your ever see a crack in the bone.
Since it's one of the earliest changes in the bone when you start to get a stress fracture, I thought it might be useful to talk about the term "periosteal elevation" really means.
What is periosteal elevation in a stress fracture in a runner?
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
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