Comparison of MRI with bone scanning for suspected hip fracture in elderly patients.

ThE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY Professional golfers play frequently and may strike an average of 800 balls a week for 40 weeks of the year, driving them at over 130 miles per hour. The forces in the tibia are very unlikely to cause a traumatic fracture in normal bone (Paul, personal communication, 1993). The previous symptoms in both cases suggest that the major fractures were due to earlier stress fractures caused by repeated torsion of the left tibia at the end of right-handed drives. Persistent shin pain in professional golfers should be regarded as due to stress fracture and treated as such to avoid potentially major injury. I am grateful to Mr A. W. G. Kinninmonth, Mr K. Mathur and Mr R. D. Pool for allowing me to report on their patients. No benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.