2022 AOSSM Annual Meeting Recordings with CME-Adolescent Tarsal Navicular Bone Stress Injuries: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 110 Patients

Adolescent Tarsal Navicular Bone Stress Injuries: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 110 Patients

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Video Summary

In this video summary, the speaker discusses tarsal navicular bone stress injuries in adolescent athletes. These injuries are rare in this age group but may be increasing due to youth sports popularity. The speaker conducted a retrospective study over a nine-year period at eight different academic centers and found that most injuries healed with nonoperative treatment. However, some patients required surgery, especially those who were older, had a higher BMI, and had grade four fractures. The operative group had longer recovery times compared to the nonoperative group. The speaker recommends MRI as the primary diagnostic tool and nonoperative treatment as the gold standard for this age group.

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Benton Heyworth, MD

Keywords

tarsal navicular bone stress injuries

adolescent athletes

nonoperative treatment

surgery

MRI