What Are the Causes of Stress Fractures of the Back?
Stress fractures often occur from overtraining. Training too hard can fatigue muscles to a point at which they are no longer able to support movement properly. This fatigue places stress on bones, which themselves can fatigue and eventually develop small cracks or stress fractures. Although stress fractures from overtraining are more common in the leg and foot, they can also occur in the back, according to the University of California Student Health Services. Spinal stress fractures are more common in female athletes who are thin and have irregular or absent menstrual cycles.
