n a study of 196 stress fractures (125 fractures in males and 71 in females) conducted by Iwamoto and Takeda,2 the most common site was the tibial shaft (44.4%), followed by the foot (15%) including the metatarsal (9.7%) and the tarsal (1%). Sakai 3 studied 183 stress fractures in athletes and found that stress fracture occurred in the tarsal bone in 10 cases (5.4%), with nine fractures in the calcaneus and one in the navicular bone, but there was no stress fracture in the cuboid bone.