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Clay-shoveler’s fracture is an avulsion of a lower cervical or upper thoracic spinous process caused by forceful muscle contractions.1 Named in the 1930s after Australian clay shovelers, it is now more common in athletes and rare in adolescents.1,2 It often presents as chronic neck or upper back pain without a clear traumatic event. We report the case of a 13-year-old female athlete with seven months of persistent periscapular pain from an undiagnosed Clay-shoveler’s fracture.
Raj I. Patel, MD
Resident
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Tetyana Marshall, MD
Fellow
University of Chicago, United States
Lee Tian, MD
Fellow
University of Chicago, United States
Bhuvaneswari Sandeep Ram, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago, United States