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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/stress-fractures-in-female-runners/">Stress fractures in female runners</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 11, 2007 at 03:13 PM by Jeanie Rebb</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Forty-five percent of competitive female runners develop stress fractures, small cracks on the surface of the bones in their legs and feet. The women most likely to suffer these injuries are those who restrict food and those who have irregular periods. Restricting food can stop a woman from menstruating regularly, which can stop her body from producing the female hormone, estrogen. Lack of estrogen weakens bones. Exercise does not cause irregular periods, not eating enough food does. Women who stop menstruating when they exercise heavily will usually start to menstruate regularly when they eat more food. Some women who suffer stress fractures will not heal until they take estrogen or other bone strengthening medications such as etidronate. Stress fractures usually start out as a minor discomfort in the foot or leg, that occurs near the end of a long run. Usually…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/stress-fractures-in-female-runners/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/stress-fractures-in-female-runners/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/stress-fractures-in-female-runners/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/stress-fractures-in-female-runners/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a><br /><br /> </P>