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Bone Stress Injuries in the Athlete

This online course will give you the understanding around what a bone stress injury is, how to recognise which athletes are most at risk, how to diagnose the injury and importantly how to get them safely back to sport and give them the tools to hopefully prevent a further injury. Read more ↓
6 Episodes 2h 28m
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Module 2: Extrinsic Risk Factors

Learn how bone stress injuries develop when training load outpaces an athlete’s capacity, and why preventing recurrence means asking what changed. Explore the key intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors—from fitness, nutrition, and fatigue to spikes in workload, surfaces, footwear, and technique.

23:18
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Module 3: Nutrition for Bone Health

Discover how low energy availability, nutrient deficiencies, and gut health can quietly undermine bone strength, recovery, and performance. You’ll learn why missed meals, restrictive eating, and hormonal changes can raise the risk of bone stress injuries in both female and male athletes.

37:56
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Module 4: Intrinsic Risk Factors

Discover how growth, bone maturity, biomechanics, sleep, stress, and recovery shape bone stress injury risk in young athletes. Learn which factors can’t be changed, which ones can, and how better screening can help prevent repeat injuries.

14:36
04
Module 5: Diagnosing a Bone Stress Injury

Learn how to spot bone stress injuries early by recognizing key symptom patterns, distinguishing them from soft-tissue pain, and knowing when imaging truly matters. You’ll also uncover why high-risk sites like the femoral neck, navicular, anterior tibia, and lumbar pars demand fast, precise decisions to protect recovery and return to sport.

30:27
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Module 6: Low Risk Stress Fractures

Learn how to recognize and manage low-risk bone stress injuries like medial tibial stress syndrome, from key symptoms and activity tolerance to strength testing and return-to-running progressions. Discover how load management, nutrition, and targeted rehab can reduce reinjury risk and improve performance.

33:40
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Module 1: Bone Stress Injuries in Athletes

Learn how bone stress injuries develop, why some athletes are more vulnerable than others, and which hidden risk factors can lead to recurring problems. Gain practical insight into assessment, diagnosis, recovery, and prevention from an expert physio with decades of experience.

08:20

It will cover topics such as low energy availability, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports, high risk stress fractures and give you assessment tools to download to assist you in clinical practice. It will cover the lumbar bone stress injury in more detail and highlight how the active child differs from the mature athlete.

Learning Outcomes

   1. Understand the incidence of bone stress injuries (BSI) in athletes

   2. Understand what a BSI is

   3. Develop an understanding of the risk factors for BSI

   4. Help you to assess and diagnose BSI

   5. Learn to recognize athletes with low energy availability

   6. Understand the different presentations of LEA such as Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports, Overtraining Syndrome and the Female and Male Triad Syndromes

   7. Step by step return to sport protocol for BSI

   8. Learn to educate the athlete team about load management and prevention of injury

 

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