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.
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Different types of tibial stress fractures in runners
Can it be a stress fracture with no crack?
Can you see Raynauds Phenomenon on an MRI in a runner?
How stress can help your Achilles tendon recover faster and get stronger
The 3 forms of stress when you start running after injury
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3 key elements of marathon training and running injury recovery
Why doctors prescribe 4 to 6 weeks in a fracture boot for stress fractures in runners
Why runners should not start with prescription medications
Find your second wind in running injury recovery
What is an osteochondral defect in a runner?
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What is traction neuritis?
Why runners need to flirt with overtraining injury
What is osteophytosis?
The 3 most important days in healing
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