Drs. M.P. (Rien) Heijboer, orthopedic surgeon, works at the Dept at Orthopedic at the Erasamus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.

He has extensive experience with sports-related injuries and has worked for more than 30 years as medical adviser of football club Feijenoord in Rotterdam. He is a member of the medical staff of the Dutch National Soccer Team and visited the world soccer championships in Brasil in 2014, which he describes as a "life-time experience"!

He is president of the Dutch Orthopedic Society (NOV).

He has a great interest in sports-related injuries and today Rien discusses his lifetime experience of managing difficult stress fractures in sport.

Further reading:

Surgical versus conservative treatment for high-risk stress fractures of the lower leg (anterior tibial cortex, navicular and fifth metatarsal base): a systematic review.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/6/370.long
Mallee WH, Weel H, van Dijk CN, van Tulder MW, Kerkhoffs GM, Lin CW.
Br J Sports Med. 2015 Mar;49(6):370-376. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2013-093246. Epub 2014 Aug 19. Review.

Ultrasonography of fractures in sports medicine.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/3/152.long
Hoffman DF, Adams E, Bianchi S.
Br J Sports Med. 2015 Feb;49(3):152-60. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094217. Epub 2014 Dec 24.

Fifth metatarsal fractures among male professional footballers: a potential career-ending disease.
http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/12/754.long
Ekstrand J, van Dijk CN.
Br J Sports Med. 2013 Aug;47(12):754-8. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2012-092096. Epub 2013 Apr 9.