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A calcaneal stress fracture is a terrible injury.
What is a calcaneal stress fracture?
"Calcaneus" is the medical term for heel bone. When you get a stress fracture in the heel bone, doctors call it a calcaneal stress fracture. When you run with a calcaneal stress fracture there is a risk the bone can actually shatter and break apart.
That obviously would be bad.
But there are three really interesting facts about the heel bone that you should think about.
Is a fracture walking boot the best thing when you have a calcaneal stress fracture?
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
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