Calcaneous stress reaction icing / later prevention questions?

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do the searches for calcaneous bursitis and insertional achilles tendonitis - sometimes the two are confused - but w/ an mri, I guess you know. After a year of playing w/ it, I went to a fairly minimal (by today's standards) shoe; but, more importantly, started w/ rolling my foot over the golf ball, plus lots of stretching for the bottom of the foot fascia. Also, roll and stretch the backs of your legs consistently. Of course, putting your heel on a bag of frozen peas helps when you're done running - if you can run.

I am in my late 50's and got my first ever stress fracture a couple of years ago. It was a calcaneal stress fracture that appeared a couple of weeks after I raced a half marathon in racing flats. Basically, there is not a lot that can be done other than making sure you have plenty of calcium in your diet to heal it as fast as possible. After it healed I tried to train in shoes with more cushioning and more miles on soft surfaces for a couple of months before transitioning back to the minimalist shoes I normally train in. The injury seems to be a somewhat random overuse injury that heals at its own pace and is difficult to determine exactly what causes it if you haven't had any abnormal stress on it.

I just wanted to ditto the frozen peas. Frozen corn works ok too and am using this now. They are just the right temperature and conform to the shape of whatever body part you are icing.