The lower leg and the foot are the most common areas to get a stress fracture ... Sometimes a child or teen with a stress fracture will need a cast, splint, brace, or boot. Rarely, surgery is needed.

These fractures commonly occur from twisting forces on the foot and can occur suddenly with an acute fracture or slowly ... If this type of fracture is treated without surgery, the patient has to wear ...

The Dallas Morning News spoke to Kenneth Jung, a foot and ankle surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Orthopedics in Los Angeles, to gain insight into Lively’s stress fracture, treatment and recovery timetable.