Stress Fractures: The Remodelling Response to Excessive Repetitive Loading,

Abstract : The occurrence of stress fractures indicates a failure to maintain an adequate match between bones structure and their functional requirement. Stress fractures occur both in well-trained athletes pushins for the limits of their performance, and in poorly-trained people, particularly women, following an abrupt change or increase in the level of their physical activity. The conventional view of the etiology of the training up type of stress fracture is that the remodelling processes are incapable of completing the necessary structural alterations before continued loading causes failure due to fatigue in the bone material.