![]() I am still in almost no pain and can easily walk even without shoes. BUT I have now had a slight mishap and it appears that I have refractured this original fracture. Healing has been very slow but my latest x-ray shows improvement. If the bone were to further fracture, at that point you are almost certainly looking at surgery to fix the fracture.Ĭomments for Walking with non-displaced 5th metatarsal fractureįurther to my original post - it is now 14 weeks since my fracture occurred. The takeaway point here is that just because the foot does not seem to hurt, don't be fooled into thinking that your problem is solved. If you happen to be overweight or are a smoker, that may further complicate the problem. So in addition to a bone stimulator, you may want to continue to limit your walking to non-essential tasks, wearing a good support shoe (like you are already wearing) and avoiding any athletic activity. The problem with being clinically healed, yet still have a fracture on x-ray, is that you are very prone to re-fracturing the metatarsal base, perhaps worse then the original fracture. In those instances a bone stimulator might not be a bad idea, in an effort to get the fracture on x-ray to close. If that is the case, and there is a very fair chance that will be the case, then you may be considered clinically healed, yet radiographically still may exhibit a fracture. You may see on the new x-ray that the fracture is not completely closed, yet you have no pain both when walking and when the doctor presses around the base of the fifth metatarsal bone. ![]() Make sure the new x-ray can be compared to the old x-ray. I would wait until the fracture is eight weeks old (from the date of trauma) to have another x-ray. In any event, foot fractures can be treated both clinically and radiographically to determine what if any, further treatment should be provided. Knowing if that is how it was after the initial trauma, or has it worsened at all by the fact that you had been walking on it for three weeks before getting an x-ray. ![]()
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