1 Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians, Seattle ... Conclusions—Isthmic spondylolysis is considered to represent a fatigue fracture of the pars interarticularis of the neural arch. There is a ...

One outcome that he sees in young athletes is the pars interarticularis injury ... nondisplaced and two displaced fractures in his lower spine. “His stress fractures and disc injuries completely ...

Sites of increased scintigraphic uptake in the posterior elements of the lumbar spine and complete or incomplete fracture in the pars interarticularis were compared for these two sports. Results: ...