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STRESS FRACTURE OF THE FIRST RIB IN A HIGH SCHOOL WEIGHT LIFTER |
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Hiroyuki Fujioka1  ,
Takeshi Kokubu2, Takeshi Makino2, Issei Nagura2,
Narikazu Toyokawa2, Atsuyuki Inui2, Ryosuke Sakata2
and Masahiro Kurosaka2 |
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1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan, 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. |
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| A 17-year-old boy, who played a weight lifting in high school,
sustained stress fracture of the first rib without any causes. We successfully
treated first rib stress fracture with limitation of using the upper extremity
and with using low-intensity pulsed ultrasound.
Key words: Stress fracture, low-intensity pulsed ultrasound, first rib, weight lifting. |
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