Stress fractures are common injuries in both human and equine athletes whose bones are placed under constant strain whilst undergoing rigorous training regimes. First described by Aristotle in 200BC, stress fractures were initially recorded in medical literature in 1855 by the Prussian military physician, Breithaupt, who described what is now known as a 'march fracture', or a stress fracture of the metatarsals.
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