i've had a stress fracture in my right foot for 4 months. do i still have i!


Question: I've had a stress fracture in my right foot for 4 months. do i still have it?
i'm in tenth grade and got the stress fracture during cross country season. had it for 4 months. got an xray and an mri and it showed up on both. i didn't know i had the stress fracture when i first felt the pain so i kept running on it for 2 weeks which worsened it. i went to the doctor for it and after 4 months of not running on it i was told it was healed. i started my running plan that the doctor gave me but my foot is hurting again. not as bad as when i had the stress fracture but it still gets sore. i ran for 25 minutes and it didn't hurt at all. two days later i ran again and it hurt almost the entire time i was running on it which was like 10 mins. i'm not sure if it's sore from not running on it for so long or if it's my stress fracture coming back. the stress fracture is in my right foot on my second metatarsal. it hurts a little when i press on it. how do i know if it's still a stress fracture?

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You suffered a broken bone in your foot - of course you're going to hurt when you go back to running. You have to ease back into it; I'm currently reconditioning after breaking my tibia and fibula so I know this road very well! Start with a very short run, five or ten minutes. Work your way up adding just a few minutes a week over the course of maybe a month or month and a half. Your body is accustomed to not running at all, and furthermore your gait (and overall muscle usage) probably changed while you were recovering from the fracture, meaning that your muscles might not be functioning at 100%.
I would highly recommend finding a sports physician or chiropractor that specializes in Active Release Techniques, which means finding and releasing knots in the body's connective tissue. These knots are especially prone to form when you're recovering from an injury, and they inhibit your normal ranges of motion when you try to get back to your old training.

Been there, done that; also a personal trainer




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