High school pitcher battles through spinal stress fractures

Joseph Congeni, MD, medical director of sports medicine at Akron Children’s Hospital, discusses the occurrence of spondylolysis, or spinal stress fractures, the most common injury among young athletes. Originally aired on http://www.wews.com on March 28, 2019.

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