Why not run through a stress fracture?

[quote]malmo wrote:

Regardless, the diagnosis is the job of your doctor, not anonymous nitwits who earned their medical degrees from Dyestat.

LOL....LOL...LOL...LOL....

wow this is really weird that this thread came up this week..my GF went to go get a bone scan today becouse she thought she has had a stress fracture.She just called me abotu 45 min agoe and told me it showed up as one and we have districts reginols and state the next 3 weeks and she is trying to decide whether or not to run as well...she has a shot at winning district and reginols and a top 5 finish in state but dosnt know if she wants to chance it ..but then she tells me she dosnt want to loose the chance to run well ...any suggestions ? i know thats all we ahev been tlaking abotu the whole time but if you ahev anything extra to say let me know. thanks

malmo wrote:

"Regardless, the diagnosis is the job of your doctor, not anonymous nitwits who earned their medical degrees from Dyestat."

Classic Malmo, well done!!

I had one my senior year of college. I ran through it because it was my last few races in my career. I doped myself up and said screw it and ran through it. I had it in cross country, so probably not as bad as trying to steeplechase or other assorted track races...

If you can live to run another day, recover and do so...if not, and you don't think there's any danger of breaking your leg off in the steeple pit, go for it.

Hopefully your doctor is good...I didn't read the entire thread, so if I'm repeating or missing key points, you'll have to go ahead and forgive me.

i meant i went in first few days of injury, wasnt so much asking for advice on stress fractures, just that, as ive had no swelling or painful pressure points at all, would this conclude it not to be a stress fracture, and as for walking an hour, doubt that will do much for my training,

A girlfriend of mine in HS was diagnosed with a stress fracture about 5 weeks before state track. She had won several state champs, but not on the track. She cross- trained a few weeks until Regionals and broke it with a lap to go. Compound fracture, and never ran the same again. Just something to keep in mind.

thank you she has talked to the docter some more today and she is out for the season but thanks for your help.

I ran an XC race on one. Started of fine but kept getting slower and slower as the race went on. Still managed to finish well up and was top scorer on my team - only problem was i couldnt walk for about a week after it!