Wanna heal a stress fracture? Make bone faster than you break it down!

Last week I was lecturing at the International Foot & Ankle Foundation medical conference in Hawaii. Specifically, I had been asked to give a couple of talks on treating running injuries. During the day I was moderating the surgery and sports medicine session, Dr. Gary Labianco was giving a lecture on Metatarsal Fractures. He said something that led us to today's episode.  It was genius! "If you want to heal a metatarsal fracture, you have to break bone faster than you break it down." What he means is that you have osteoclasts and osteoblasts, not just repairing bone, but also removing bone throughout the healing process. That is true. But let's think about the other side of that equation. Not just physicians pulling your activity back to stop breaking bone down so fast, but all of the things you as a patient could do to make bone faster. Wanna heal a stress fracture faster? Make bone faster than you break it down! Well, that's what we're talking about today on the Doc On The Run Podcast.