The worst thing you can do after you've been healing with a stress fracture is to re-injure the bone.
Obviously when that happens, you have a huge setback, you've just lost weeks of training, you're going to lose more fitness, and in some cases you might have to start over again with the fracture walking boot. You don't want to do that.
Today on the Doc On the Run Podcast, we're talking about why the “Hop Test” is the worst test for a runner with a stress fracture who thinks the metatarsal bone has healed enough to run.
Doctor’s job vs. Runners job in healing overtraining injury
3 ways stress fracture in a runner turns into non-union
Can I massage the foot with plantar plate sprain
#1 most important action when you roll your ankle running
How to calculate amount of rest between running injury and a race
Compressive stress on plantar plate in runners
Fat Pad Displacement vs. Atrophy in runners with plantar plate injury
Difference between plantar plate stress and strain
Single leg exercise benefits for injured runners
Is stress on the plantar plate ligament bad for runners?
Fat Pad Atrophy: withering away or wearing away?
Biggest mistake doctor can make in runner who was on crutches
Endoscopic surgery for chronic plantar fasciitis in runners
Is taping the sesamoids good or bad for swelling?
Ankle exercises for plantar plate?
What summer sandals can I wear with sesamoiditis?
Can I run after cortisone injection for a neuroma?
Single most important stretch for Sesamoid fracture in runner
Should I expect to have plantar plate pain when I resume running
Surgical options sesamoid fracture nonunion
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