Today’s episode comes from a discussion I just had yesterday with an athlete. He had a metatarsal fracture non-union.
A “fracture non-union” can develop when there is a crack in the bone that moving a little bit too much and doesn’t completely heal.
Non-unions can happen if you get a stress fracture, and you keep running on it and you’re tough and you’re strong and it doesn’t really hurt that bad.
If you keep running and repeatedly stress that crack, it can’t heal.
Should I get a CT scan or should I test walking to see if my fracture is healed?
Well, that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
View Details »When you get an injury to a bone like a metatarsal stress fracture, you can develop a thing called a “bone callus.”
You might even see it as a lump visible on the x-ray in your doctors office.
Whether the lump is made up of hard bone, fibrocartilage or something in between, it may help you to understand the significance of that lump in your foot.
When the bone callous appears, and the size of the bone callous itself, can tell your whole lot about your progression of healing, and whether or not you might get other problems in the future.
What is a bone callus in a metatarsal stress fracture? Well, that’s what we’re talking about today on the Doc On the Run Podcast!
View Details »I was just doing a telemedicine, second opinion consultation with an elite triathlete was ramping up for an event and got a metatarsal stress fracture.
In this particular case, the doctor looked at his x-rays and told him that she thought she saw a crack in the bone on the x-ray. But she wasn’t really 100% sure.
He asked me a really great question…
“If it doesn’t really hurt that much, is it okay if I walk on it?”
Today on Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about if your hand was broken, would you walk on it?
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I was just doing a telemedicine call with a runner with a stress fracture, and he had a really interesting question.
He said, “Look, I just really want to know if I really have a stress fracture because my doctor took an x-ray and there was no crack in the bone. I looked it up myself and the definition of a fracture is a visible crack.”
Do I really have a stress fracture, or not?
This is a great question, it brings up a really interesting point.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we’re talking about whether or not a runner can have a stress fracture, if there is no crack in the bone.
View Details »A runner with a stress fracture just called me for a phone consultation.
He was concerned because he got an X-ray and saw a bulge in the bone.
The question was whether or not this bulging area of healing bone in the stress fracture was a good thing or a bad thing.
More than anything else he just wanted to know if the lump of bone on the x-ray was an indication that it was okay to start running.
Sometimes a lump of bone on your x-ray is good thing, but sometimes a bad thing.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about whether or not a bulge in your metatarsal bone on an x-ray of a stress fracture tells you if it is healed enough to start running.
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Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about the difference between a displaced vs non-displaced fracture, and what it means if you are a runner. If you’re a runner and you walk through your living room and you accidentally kick the coffee table or you catch your toe on a bedpost or […]
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