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EPISODE · Jan 10, 2024 · 4 MIN

Is there any difference healing a stress fracture vs. traumatic fracture?

from Doc On The Run Podcast · host Dr. Christopher Segler

I saw a runner who had a traumatic fracture, but she had been told it was a stress fracture. This did not make sense to her, because her injury wasn't from training for a race.  She was trying to understand the difference in healing between a stress fracture with a crack when compared to the healing time of a traumatic fracture with a similar crack. It's important to understand they were talking about similar cracks in similar bones that remain in a similar position. We're not talking about broken bones that are displaced. If you jump off a ladder, you break the bone and it's moved out of position, that is a completely different story. Stress fractures don't generally get displaced as much as traumatic fractures.  If there's a crack in the bone because of a stress fracture, the bone is not displaced. But how does that compare to similar (non-displaced )traumatic fracture? Is there any difference in healing between a stress fracture versus a traumatic fracture? Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.   

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