Can I Run With A Stress Fracture In The Heel Bone? - a podcast by Dr. Christopher Segler

Today on the Doc On The Run podcast we’re talking about whether or not you should run when you have a stress fracture in the heel bone.

The first thing to think about is like what is a stress fracture in the heel bone. The heel bone is an irregular bone. It’s an odd shape. It’s not tubular. It’s not square. It’s very thin on the outside and it’s sort of squishy on the inside. It’s kind of like a sponge. It’s really kind of like a hard boiled egg. A hard boiled has a hard shell on the outside and if you drop it cracks but it does not really deform and that’s usually what happens with heel bone when it actually fractures. If you drop it hard enough it will completely explode and the shell bursts outward in a bunch of little pieces and then we have to go and try to put it back together.

What we do is we actually put a plate and a whole bunch of screws to suck all those pieces together but it is never perfect. It is never the same again like a real fracture in the heel bone like that where it exploded is no good.

In this session I’m going to explain to you about whether or not it’s a good idea and how you might be able to run with a stress fracture in the heel bone.

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