Our body is very much vulnerable to all kinds of injuries foremost to a much more devastating form of break known as fracture or broken bones. There are many types of fractures and stress fracture is one of them.
What is stress fracture?
Stress fracture take place when the bone breaks due to cyclic stress that occurs on the human body specially on the same bone. The amount of injury may vary from growth of cracks to fracture of the bone. It has been seen that stress fracture may take place in any of the bone present in the human body. But the metatarsals bones of the foot are the most vulnerable of all the stress fractures going on in the body. It has also been noticed that the injury or the stress fractures in the metatarsals areas are not that prominently able to be seen even in X rays and only diagnosed after repetitive or succeeding injuries.
Generally the stress fracture leads to the breaking of the external shell of the bone but if the condition is ignored or the repeated injury occurs then it can lead to break throughout fractures.
Judging by the mode of incidence stress fracture are often termed as fatigue fractures. As the name also advise that stress fractures are the resulting of excessive stress on the bone. Such injuries happens dues sports activity and connected physical activities such as long time foot activity like in soccer, baseball etc.
Before getting on to the stress fracture treatment, we shall first talk about its symptoms.
Stress Fracture Symptoms
- Severe and continuous pain that aggravates with the faction
- Feeling of tenderness on the metatarsals on submission of pressure.
- Swelling on the part of injury, even after a extended time of injury.
- Redness, pain and heat can be felt on the affected area.
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