Whenever I speak to a runner who wants to know if they can run with a bone bruise, I get confused. If you were "diagnosed" with a bone bruise, you should be confused, too.
A bruise is a very simple thing. You fall down and land on your knee and you get a bruise. You get a bruise because your kneecap crushes the skin against the ground and you get bleeding in the skin that you see as discoloration that we call a bruise.
You can't see that in a bone. When you get diagnosed with a bone bruise, you have to think of it in terms of bone injury, like a stress fracture. The continuum of bone injury includes stress response, stress reaction and stress fractures.
You have to understand the severity of the bone injury before you can decide whether or not to run.
What is the difference between a bone bruise and a stress reaction in a runner?
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
Cuboid stress fracture vs. Degenerative changes in OS Peroneum. How can a runner tell the difference?
Cuboid stress fracture vs. Calcaneocuboid joint arthritis. How can a runner tell the difference?
Cuboid stress fracture vs. Subluxed cuboid. How can a runner tell the difference?
Cuboid stress fracture vs. Peroneus longus tendinitis. How can a runner tell the difference?
Cuboid stress fracture vs. truly fractured cuboid bone. How can a runner tell the difference?
Cuboid stress fracture fundamentals for runners
What happens if you run with a neuroma pad in the wrong place?
Foot Fungus Pro Tip: Wear old socks to the airport
PRP science explained. PRP vs. Corticosteroid vs. Placebo injections.
Are you hiding from your injury?
Painful calluses in runners fixed with the strawberry stem technique
Injured runners must proceed with confidence
How can pronation cause hallux rigidus in a runner?
What is a ”bone bruise” at an old fracture site?
Runner has a neuroma and bursitis, which is worse?
Got clearance to start cycling, should I stop icing?
When is a web-cam second opinion just as good as in person doctor visit?
Dry Needling vs PRP injection in Runners
What if stress fracture still swells and hurts a lot?
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