Investigations into Changes in Bone Turnover with Acute, Weight-Bearing Exercise in Healthy, Young Men

: Introduction/relevance to the Symposium: Lower limb stress fracture injuries (SFx) account for a high number of working days lost during initial UK military training, cause considerable morbidity to recruits and contribute significantly to the high attrition from training. Rationale: Recent evidence from the assessment of circulating biochemical markers suggests that changes in bone turnover, a process in which old bone is removed (bone...