Anyone with experience of long to heal calcaneus fractures?
I just hit 6 months with ZERO running and my heel is still bothering me.
I ran/raced on a sore heel everyday for 2 months and finally it got so bad I stopped running and took some time off. It took a few doctors before I finally got a proper bone scan and it showed a decent fracture in my heel.
I've stayed off the heel but didn't spent much time in the boot.
I'm so bummed about this and I've pretty much given up. Gained about 20 lbs, gave up on any cardio because it feels like forever until I'm going to run again.
I've never used/needed orthotics, but I got some custom ones from my foot doc, but they seem to make no difference.
I've never been off for 6 months and I can't believe this is still bothering me.
Should I get another bone scan to see if it's healed? I guess I should look into some PT... I know I'm a mess.
Also, I've never had any PF issues, but this injury seems related because in the last couple months my PF on that side has started bothering me (and this is with no significant walking/exercise of any kind).