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Christine Prill1, Amanda Honsvall Hoefler2
1University of Minnesota Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, St. Louis Park, MN.
Abstract:
A previously healthy 5-year-old boy presented with an oblique fracture of the midtibial diaphysis at the top border of the snowboarding boot after falling from a standing position with both feet strapped to his snowboard. This case illustrates a snowboarding-specific variant of the torsion-tension boot top injury classically described in skiers. Unlike most snowboarding-related lower-extremity injuries, this fracture occurred in the absence of high-speed trauma or collision.
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