Talk:March fracture

DYK
I have nominated this article for DYK today 22 december 2008. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 06:02, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This page has been verified for DYK section and will soon appear on the Main Page. Ganesh Dhamodkar  (Talk) 06:50, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Before creating this article, I had searched on wikipedia by name March fracture, and it was not there. But today, while making some edits, i found that the article stress fracture is already there. It has a redirect from Marching fracture and not from March fracture.

As this article is already there on wikipedia, i think both of these articles should be merged. Ganesh Dhamodkar (Talk) 06:35, 25 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Yesterday, I went home and again searched for material regarding stress fracture and march fracture. I found that Stress fracture is a broader term, and a March fracture is the stress fracture of metatarsal bones only. so I think both the articles can coexist in wikipedia. Ganesh Dhamodkar  (Talk) 02:45, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Contradiction: which metatarsal?
The opening paragraph says "It mostly occurs in the second metatarsal of the right foot.[1]", while the second section says "March fracture usually occurs at the base of the fifth metatarsal (proximal portion)". The next clause appears to say that a march-like fracture in the fifth metatarsal is called a Jones fracture.&mdash;Dah31 (talk) 16:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)