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...There's a lot of confusion in the lay world about fractures. "Broken" and "fractured" mean the same thing. And a stress fracture is not something about which most folks have any intuitive feeling. So I have this dialogue whenever someone...
...alive why doesn't it get strong enough to deal with the stress and not fracture...
...know. All we do know is that the stress you gave it was too much, too soon...
...would be great if the timing issue were as straightforward as the treatment. Treatment of stress fractures is pretty easy. Immobilization or rest-basically avoiding the stress that caused the fracture- usually gets them to heal within six weeks. In a child it might be faster, in an older person probably a bit longer...
...regular people for months after the bones are healed. Our saying is "Foot pain is low back pain of the extremities," meaning many patients with foot pain, like chronic back patients, never get better, no matter what you do. So we treat it with respect. I have seen a stress fracture of the foot keep a middle-aged woman hobbling in pain for over a year. Every doc in my field has experience with schoolgirls whose mysterious foot and leg pains are relieved only by a doctor's note that gets them out of gym. On the other...