What is a grade 5 metatarsal stress fracture?
Mar 14, 2022•5 min•Ep. 534
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Episode description
If you're a runner and you think you have a grade 5 stress fracture because your radiology report said that or some doctor told you that, well, I have some good news and some bad news.
The good news is, is that you don't even have a stress fracture if you have a grade 5 stress fracture. It's not a stress fracture at all.
The bad news is, is a grade 5 stress fracture, is what we call a non-union where you had a stress fracture but that stress fracture actually failed to heal.
You have basically an unhealed, and probably not going to heal, stress fracture, unless you do something.
What is a grade 5 metatarsal stress fracture? Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run podcast.
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