A body at rest tends to remain at rest - a podcast by Dr. Christopher Segler

A body at rest remains at rest.

Now that is a law of physics. That's not something I came up with, but it definitely applies to running injuries.

This is what I see happen over and over and over. Somebody gets a stress fracture, they go to the doctor, the doctor takes an X-ray, they don't see a crack. They don't see anything on the X-ray. And they say, "Well, I don't see anything, but you have a stress fracture." Here's a boot, wear it for four weeks, we'll see you in a month. Come back and we'll do another x-ray.

You leave there thinking, "Wait a minute, you didn't see a crack. You didn't see anything. In fact, I'm not even so sure that you know it's a stress fracture, because you said there was no crack on the X-ray yet you gave me a boot and you told me to sit around for a month and then do another X-ray. Like, what does that mean?"

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast, we're talking about running injury truth number five, a body at rest tends to remain at rest.

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