What determines whether an avulsion fracture or a ligament rupture will occur?

If you pull out a weed slowly you get the roots, if quickly it will most likely snap off along the stem; however this analogy doesn’t hold for ligaments, the quicker the stress is applied the more likely the avulsion fracture, yes/no?

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What determines whether an avulsion fracture or a ligament rupture will occur?

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