Bone Stress Injury

A bone stress injury (BSI) is due to a bone’s inability to cope with repetitive mechanical loading.

This results in structural fatigue with localised bone pain and tenderness.

Essentially, BSI is an overuse injury and is normally multifactorial with a combination of biological, biomechanics and anatomical risk factors.

Team blogsJames Dodd19 October 2021James Dodd, Bones, Bone Stress Disorder

Osteoporosis… the silent one!

Many people don’t know that they have osteoporosis until they sustain a fracture, often after a fall. Across the European Union in 2010, there were an estimated 43,000 deaths causally related to fractures! It is important to note that osteoporotic related fractures do not only affect women: one in five men in the UK over 50 years old break a bone due to low bone strength…. and it is interesting to know that men’s fracture related mortality is higher than women’s.

Team blogsJames Dodd18 April 2016Osteoporosis, Bones, James Dodd