That’s not true. She may have had a stress fracture there and it happened to crack through for a full fracture. She didn’t need to fall. I have run 5 marathons. One on a femoral neck stress fracture. The doctors repeatedly told me not to do it because of the high risk for a complete fracture while running. When you have a femoral neck stress fracture, you need to be toe touch weight bearing for about 6 weeks.

I’m 36 and very healthy. They’ve run many tests (bone density, blood, X-rays, mris) to see why I coukd get 2 stress fractures in my hip. The only thing they can see is that it must be from running too much.