“…16 Although designed primarily as a therapeutic modality, TUS is not only used in the treatment of soft tissue sport injuries, but it is also an accurate, cost-efficient diagnostic alternative to imaging methods for the primary assessment of bone stress injuries because direct application of TUS at the site of injury may produce pain, thus confirming the diagnosis. 3,4,6,7,17 Therapeutic ultrasound, being cost-effective, safe, and noninvasive, may be used as a preliminary assessment tool in this context. Our aim was to detect whether TUS is a reliable method for the early diagnosis of bone stress injuries compared with the gold standard method, namely MRI.…”