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Freiberg's infraction in a collegiate heptathlete
H J Palamarchuk1, C R Oehrlein
1Department of Orthopedics, Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association
|March 4, 2000
Abstract:
In 1914, Freiberg described a condition of infraction of the second metatarsal head. At the time, he considered direct trauma to be the etiologic agent, but he later disproved this by demonstrating a case without a history of trauma. This article describes a case of Freiberg's infraction in a female collegiate heptathlete and the effects of conservative treatment of her condition with custom-made orthoses.