How can a bone stress reaction turn into malunion from running?
About this episode
I was just talking to a runner over webcam who had been researching metatarsal stress fractures, but heard something about a "malunion" and knew that a fracture malunion was a really bad thing.
He had been diagnosed with a stress reaction in one of his metatarsals.
If you continue to stress a metatarsal stress reaction enough, it can progress to a full-on metatarsal fracture.
So, he wanted to know, "If I run on my stress reaction, is it going to turn into a malunion?"
How can a bone stress reaction turn into a malunion, from running?
Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.
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