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Exercise-associated lower leg pain: Timing and duration is a strong clue
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Exercise-associated lower leg pain: Timing and duration is a strong clue
Wednesday 15 August 2018, 12:30 AM

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Steadily worsening lower leg pain that comes and goes with exercise requires a careful history and examination, sometimes within a minute of the patient stopping exercise
Key points, Medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) is the most common exercise-related, lower-leg pain condition; it is usually bilateral.
Tibial stress fract
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