I am over 1 year into recovering from a 2nd surgery to my navicular bone--I had a 2nd screw placed in the bone due to a fracture that I incurred after having the screw put in--and I still can't seem to shake the injury and fully heal the bone.
If anybody knows of any new treatments, procedures, or advice I would greatly appreciate it.
i had this exact fracture and solution (screw) my junior year of high school (middle of xc season). i am a sophomore in college now and it does not bother me at all anymore.
junior year i tried to scrap together an outdoor season and was pretty crippled by the end of the season. senior year i was close to hurt again at the end of each season. took the summer and most of the next year off.
6/7 months ago i started training again, started slow and for the last month or so ive been running faster than i ever have. i think the key was the year almost completely off from racing and training.
since you had a more serious surgery (i only have one screw), you need to take time off from training and racing. like a lot of time. completely off.
the only thing you can give it is time. swim and keep your core stuff up during but the only thing that helps stress fractures is time.
hope this helps!
Surgically, there are new bioactive bone graft materials with stem cells. You can also slap some platelet rich plasma over the fracture as well.
What isn't new is bone growth stimulators. The implantable bone stims are more reliable if you're gonna get another surgery. Otherwise without surgery, you're looking at being nonweightbearing in cast and wearing an external bone stim for 2 months or so.