My stress fracture isn't healing

[Laura-R]

I'm a really competitive Irish dancer, and was training for the World championships, I had pain for a couple of months leading up, but thought it would be inevitable to have ache's and pains with so much training. I done it on the day I danced! I was on crutches for around a week and a half and then second hospital told me to weight bare.

I had been walking on it and basically getting used to the pain. I was limping for around 3-4 weeks and and then managed to walk properly, heel to toe, relatively normal. I was referred to physio...bearing in mind the third Doctor thought it was a fracture, and then the physio didn't! When I told the physio it just wasn't getting better, he done this thing 'to loosen all the soft tissue' as if it was a knot, this caused a lot of pain and I'm presuming he done more damage and set me back in healing time. After that he told me to have more scans, which then in July told me that it had been a very bad fracture, and the whole of the bone and crumbled or something. I am walking perfectly normal, with the occasional day where I can not, but still with some pain. I have days where I have no pain and feels as though I can dance and others where it is painful to walk. I also have pain when dropping my arch and trying to raise on to my toes. Also, when I had all my scans in July the doctor said that he can just see signs of the bone fusing and should start to be getting better, three months on and it doesn't feel it, and no, there was swelling when I done it for about 5 days but nothing since.

[kesho88]

from what you said fissure fracture must rest for it when it happens to prevent any complication would occur so you dance on it while it was healing this put stresses again on fracture site and delay healing so what you need according to the last x ray that there are some signs of healing like callus and shadows reveal that begin to heal so you must offload your foot and try to rest till clinical union occur after that begin weight bear as tolerated and apply ice and elevation to decrease pain and any swelling will occur after the union you must do rehabilitatiob program to regain balance and correct any biomechanical deformities that cause the problem to be able to go on dance

be patient for it i have info. for you when a football player had that fracture he rest from playing by 3 monthes to confirm good healing and good rehabilitation