12 year old boy with ongoing lower leg pain

Describe what you see

How would you manage this patient?

This is a stress fracture of the tibia. How would you treat it?

This is a 22 year old man, who has been treated nonoperatively with protected weighbearing for 8 weeks. How would you manage him? He is otherwise fit and well and a non smoker.

 

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