An MRI is the gold standard for detecting stress fractures, especially when pain first begins, as X-rays are often negative and bone scans are impractical.

“an MRI really is excellent at looking because you can see the architecture of the bone you can see uh basically what we call edema in the bone or bone marrow lesion and sometimes a crack in the bone and it's graded there's stress reactions and then there's stress fracture”

“um and an M really is excellent at looking cuz you can see the architecture of the bone and you can see um basically what we call edema in the bone or bone marrow lesion and sometimes a crack in the bone and it's graded there's stress reactions and then there's stress fracture a stress reaction is like a pre-stress fracture”

“um but it hurts in the groin and right away you don't let them run until you find out if it's if it's a stress fracture and here's why and sorry the MRI is the gold standard it is so x-rays we always need to get x-rays to make sure you're making sure that the joint looks healthy there are other conditions that can cause groin pain uh but it's usually negative it's usually hard to detect a stress fracture right when the pain starts the MRI is the gold standard to see that it used to be bone scan but that is Impractical”

“and often times I'll get a follow-up MRI to make sure um that it's that it is healing and not increasing”