these are related to overuse hormonal and nutritional problems. these are not uncommon in young females who are overtraining. her doc needs to address the female athlete triad with her and her parents to begin to identify why she is having these recurrent stress fractures. femoral stress fractures cannot be ignored as the outcomes can be horrible if they are.
a friend who is a collegiate distance runner has had her second femoral stress fracture. what could be the cause?