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Navicular Stress Fracture

I do hate seeing a navicular stress fracture as they usually occur in dedicated athlete who train hard and who put in long hours and are often competing at a high level. I hate seeing it as I have to tell them the news that they going to have to stop for about 6 weeks and then gradually start back to full training loads. No one wants to tell a high level athlete than and no high level athlete wants to be told that! Unfortunately, there is no way that they can heal in quicker than 6 weeks.

The key signs for a navicular stress fracture are pain over the navicular often located to a particular spot on the navicular (more)

September 17, 2012 Posted by | Sports Medicine | , , | Comments Off on Navicular Stress Fracture