3. Kicking a Ball
The majority of avulsion fractures happen due to sudden trauma, and usually when a muscle or ligament gets pulled – and gets pulled so hard that it detaches a piece of the surrounding bone. There are many situations where this can happen, and the injury is very common amongst those in professional sports – but of course, they can also happen to you even just during a casual game of football or anything else.
Kicking a ball places a lot of impact on the bones and ligaments within the legs and feet: People who do this regularly as a pastime or professional career have put a lot of work into making sure that their ligaments and muscles are trained to handle impact, while the same isn’t true for everyone else.
The same impact – or sometimes just the wrong angle – during simple action like kicking a ball can be enough to cause an avulsion fracture.