I had a question on one of my YouTube videos in which I was trying to explain the procedure for broken toes called “closed reduction.” That’s the fancy term for popping the broken bone back in place or “re-setting the fracture.”
You may have heard someone say, “Well, I had a fracture and the doctor had to “set it” or the doctor had “put the broken bone back in place.”
There is a risk and a benefit to everything. Even with non-surgical fracture treatment.
Putting a fractured piece of bone (in a broken toe) back where it belongs is more likely to make it heal in the right position, because you put it back in the right position.
If you leave the broken bone in the wrong position, it may heal and then cause problems later because it’s crooked.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we’re talking about the biggest danger with popping a broken toe back in place.
View Details »Every treatment in medicine has pluses and minuses. Applying ice is no different. Ice can make some things better, and some things worse.
If you ice something, in general it will calm that inflammatory response, reduce the pain and make you more comfortable.
But your goal is to get back to running as quickly as possible, not to just make you feel better.
Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we’re talking about whether or not an injured runner should ice a broken toe.
View Details »If you want to get back to running faster after a foot fracture (or any overtraining injury), the whole key is make sure that you are increasing your activity to get stronger, instead of just sitting around and waiting, while you get weaker.
But the only way you can do that is with constant readjustment based on how you feel and what happens in response to that activity during that recovery process.
This episode is about runner with a healing fracture who was told by a doctor, “don’t run.” Instead he was supposed to wait for another x-ray to prove it was healed.
And after I did a consultation call with him, I actually cleared him to start running now.
Today on the Doc on the Run Podcast, we’re talking about a recovering runner with a fracture who wants to ramp up his intensity today.
I just got off a call with a runner who broke his little toe and he is trying to get back to running.
Pain when running is one signal that you are disrupting the healing process.
His main question was if he could run without pain, is it okay to run on the broken toe before it is fully healed?
He is concerned that if he runs and the broken toe doesn’t heal, that would obviously lead to problems and he doesn’t want to have a non-healed broken toe.
Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast we’re talking about what happens if you run and your broken toe does not heal.
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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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This weekend I was rock climbing in Joshua Tree National Park with my son. At one point he started climbing up to a point where we were going to practice rappelling.
He chose to climb up a way I knew was more difficult than necessary. But he wanted to proceed, so I let him.
You have to know whether or not you can proceed with the given activity without getting hurt.
Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we’re talking about how rock climbing is a lot like sports medicine.
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